Word Meanings - INFORTUNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unlucky; unfortunate. Shak. "A most infortynate chance." Howell. - In*for"tu*nate*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to INFORTUNATE)
- CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HOWELL
The upper stage of a porcelian furnace. - CHANCEFUL
Hazardous. Spenser. - CHANCE
Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance, - CHANCELLORSHIP
The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor. - CHANCEL
lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is - CHANCEABLY
By chance. - CHANCERY
1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now - CHANCELLOR
A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with - CHANCE-MEDLEY
The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley. Note: The term has been sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, or to any accidental killing of a person without premeditation - UNLUCKY
1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game. Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity, - UNFORTUNATE
Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. -- n. - CHANCEABLE
Fortuitous; casual. - ARCHCHANCELLOR
A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. - PERCHANCE
By chance; perhaps; peradventure. - MISCHANCE
Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity. - BECHANCE
By chance; by accident. Grafton. - MISCHANCEFUL
Unlucky. R. Browning. - MUM-CHANCE
2. A silent, stupid person. Halliwell.