infortunate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To subject a person to a, or cause a celestial body to be of malevolent influence; to render 'infortunate'.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "Henry, though he be infortunate"
- "That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo terrifyed with my owne encreaſe (like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monſter) that it was no ſooner borne but I was glad to run from it."
- "a most infortunate chance"
Etymology
The adjective is first attested circa 1390, in Middle English, the verb in 1570; inherited from Middle English infortunat(e), borrowed from Latin infortūnātus, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of unfortunate.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: infortunat, infortūnātus
Usage
Inflected Forms
more infortunate (comparative)
most infortunate (superlative)
infortunates (plural)
infortunates (present, singular)
infortunating (participle, present)
infortunated (participle, past)
infortunated (past)
Frequently Paired Words
infortunately