Dictionary entry
Unfortunately
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nətli/
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nətli/
Myanmar Meaning
(adv) ကံဆိုးချင်တော့
Definition
unfortunate /ʌn'fↄ:tʃǝnǝt / adj ၁။ ကံမေကာင္းေသာ။ ကံေခေသာ။ an unfortunate start to the trip ❍ I was unfortunate enough to lose my keys. ၂။ မသင့္ေသာ။ အေၾကာင္းမလွေသာ။ ဆိုးေသာ။ a most unfortunate choice of words ❍ It is unfortunate that you missed the meeting. n (esp pl ) ( dated or rhet ) ကံေခသူ။ ကံမေကာင္းသူ။ ကံဆိုးသူ။ အေၾကာင္းမလွသူ။ Unlike these unfortunates, I do have a job. ❏ unfortunately adv ~ (for sb) အေၾကာင္းအေပါင္းမသင့္၍။ ကံဆိုးခ်င္ေတာ့။ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာ။ I can't come, unfortunately. ❍ Unfortunately for him, he was proved wrong. ❍ The notice is most unfortunately phrased.
Examples
- The unfortunate victims of the pension fund fraud are unlikely to get their money back.
- This whole episode has been very unfortunate.
- [it is unfortunate that] : It’s unfortunate that some politicians have condemned the film without even seeing it.
- He had an unfortunate habit of getting drunk and behaving badly at parties.