Word Meanings - INFORTUNED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unfortunate. I, woeful wretch and infortuned wight. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to INFORTUNED)

• WOEFULNESS; WOFULNESS
  The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
• WIGHT
  Weight.
• WOEFUL; WOFUL
  1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel. 2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. O woeful
• WRETCHEDLY
  In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
• WIGHTLY
  Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.
• WRETCH
  wretch, fr. wrecan to drive out, punish; properly, an exile, one driven out, akin to AS. wræc an exile, OS. wrekkio a stranger, OHG. 1. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy. "The wretch that lies in woe." Shak. Hovered thy spirit o'er thy
• WOEFULLY; WOFULLY
  In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.
• INFORTUNE
  Misfortune. Chaucer.
• INFORTUNED
  Unfortunate. I, woeful wretch and infortuned wight. Chaucer.
• INFORTUNATE
  Unlucky; unfortunate. Shak. "A most infortynate chance." Howell. - In*for"tu*nate*ly, adv.
• WRETCHFUL
  Wretched. Wyclif.
• WRETCHEDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. Eat worms and such wretchedness. Chaucer.
• UNFORTUNATE
  Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. -- n.
• WRETCHLESS
  Reckless; hence, disregarded. -- Wretch"less*ly, adv. -- Wretch"less*ness, n. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Your deaf ears should listen Unto the wretchless clamors of the poor. J. Webster.
• WRETCHED
  1. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. "To what wretched state reserved!" Milton. O cruel! Death! to those you are more kind Than to the
• TWIGHT
  To twit. Spenser.
• TWIGHTE
  imp. of Twitch. Chaucer.