Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: jammer
- Amharic: በቀዳሚ
- Arabic: مؤسف
- Azerbaijani: təəssüf
- Bashkir: прискорбный
- Belarusian: сумна
- Bulgarian: жалко
- Bengali: দু: খজনক
- Bosnian: nesrećni
- Catalan: lamentable
- Cebuano: unfortunate
- Czech: nešťastné
- Welsh: yn anffodus
- Danish: uheldigt
- German: bedauerlich
- Greek: ατυχές
- Esperanto: bedaŭrinda
- Spanish: lamentable
- Estonian: kahetsusväärne
- Basque: penagarria
- Persian: تاسف
- Finnish: valitettavaa
- French: malheureux
- Irish: trua
- Scottish Gaelic: mar
- Galician: lamentable
- Gujarati: કમનસીબ
- Hebrew: מצער
- Hindi: दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण
- Croatian: jadno
- Haitian: malere
- Hungarian: szerencsétlen
- Armenian: ցավալի է
- Indonesian: malang
- Icelandic: óheppilegt
- Italian: sfortunato
- Japanese: 残念な
- Javanese: apes
- Georgian: სამწუხაროა
- Kazakh: өкінішке
- Khmer: អកុសល
- Kannada: ದುರದೃಷ್ಟಕರ
- Korean: 불
- Kyrgyz: прискорбно
- Latin: infelix
- Luxembourgish: bedauerlich
- Lao: ໂຊ
- Lithuanian: gaila
- Latvian: žēl
- Malagasy: mampalahelo
- Mari: прискорбный
- Maori: meapango
- Macedonian: жално
- Malayalam: നിർഭാഗ്യകരമായ
- Mongolian: харамсалтай
- Marathi: दुर्दैवी
- Hill Mari: прискорбный
- Malay: malang
- Maltese: ħasra
- Burmese: ကံ
- Nepali: अभागी
- Dutch: jammer
- Norwegian: uheldig
- Punjabi: ਮੰਦਭਾਗੀ
- Papiamento: elemental
- Polish: smutne
- Portuguese: infeliz
- Romanian: nefericit
- Russian: прискорбно
- Sinhalese: අවාසනාවන්ත
- Slovak: nešťastné
- Slovenian: žalostno
- Albanian: për të ardhur keq
- Serbian: жалосно
- Sundanese: musibah
- Swedish: olyckligt
- Swahili: bahati mbaya
- Tamil: துரதிருஷ்டவசமான
- Telugu: దురదృష్టకర
- Tajik: мутаассифона
- Thai: โชคร้าย
- Tagalog: kapus-palad
- Turkish: talihsiz
- Tatar: авыр хәл
- Udmurt: ӝожомыса
- Ukrainian: сумно
- Urdu: بدقسمتی
- Uzbek: badbaxt
- Vietnamese: đáng tiếc
- Xhosa: unfortunate
- Yiddish: נעבעך
- Chinese: 不幸的
Synonyms, close and similar words for unfortunate
- sad
- deplorable
- regrettable
- distressing
- unsuccessful
- hapless
- luckless
- forlorn
- unlucky
- poor
- bad
- wretched
- unhappy
- infelicitous
- miserable
- inauspicious
- accident
- poor fellow
- abortive
- unfortunate creature
- poor creature
- lamentable
- pitiable
- out of luck
- disastrous
- calamitous
- fatal
- fateful
- grievous
- sorrowful
- distressful
- mournful
- woeful
- tragic
- tragical