adverb
definition
Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
definition
Used (as a parenthetical word) to express disappointment, compassion, sorrow, regret or grief.
Examples of unfortunately in a Sentence
Unfortunately, this session was unsuccessful.
Unfortunately, the news was disappointing.
Unfortunately, he has said nothing to me about you.
Unfortunately, the trip to dreamland was short in duration.
Unfortunately, someone had torn out the page.
Unfortunately, it was another dead end.
Unfortunately, the call went to voice mail.
Unfortunately, life gets in the way a fair amount of the time.
Unfortunately, it seems that way.
Unfortunately, he did not miss the child until the following morning.
He and Fred walked down the road, unfortunately meeting a half-dozen friends from town en route.
Unfortunately, there was nothing to quicken the healing of his neck.
Unfortunately, I think you might be right.
Unfortunately, the new president was unequal to the task of composing the differences in his party.
But, unfortunately, another man saw fit to pay it.
Unfortunately she could not grant my request, but I hope, Count, I shall be more fortunate with you, he said with a smile.
Unfortunately, there is no one left alive to salute the LeBlanc and Betsy and I want our adopted daughter Claire to know she is fully a part of our lives.
Unfortunately, it occurred over night and we couldn't fix the time in spite of three attempts to do so.
Unfortunately, Descartes is too lordly a philosopher to explain distinctly what either understanding or will may mean.
But, unfortunately, I struck my foot on a rock and fell forward into the cold water.
Unfortunately, we didn't learn of the murder until a week after it occurred, making it impossible for Howie to "witness" the scene.
Unfortunately, the man didn't know who his handler was.
Unfortunately, you are a Council member.
She would, doubtless, have made a model tsaritsa of the pre-Petrine period, but, unfortunately, she was no fit wife for such a vagabond of genius as Peter the Great.
Unfortunately Poland profited little or nothing by this great triumph, and now that she had broken the back of the enemy she was left to fight the common enemy in the Ukraine with whatever assistance she could obtain from the unwilling and unready Muscovites.
At this period the preceptors of the tsarevich had the highest opinion of his ability; but, unfortunately, it was not the sort of ability that his father could make use of.
Unfortunately, you were far more careless calling your tip line and a telephone code was noted and remembered by the operator.
Unfortunately, All Souls being a later foundation, the college at Higham Ferrers was not affiliated to it, and so fell with other colleges not part of the universities.
Unfortunately, the breeze was in her favor.
Unfortunately, Jackson realized too late that Cassandra was a crazy bitch, and needy as hell.
Garay, when on his way to Santa Fe, was unfortunately murdered by a party of Indians, Minuas (Mimas), three years later, while incautiously sleeping on the river bank near the ruins of San Espiritu.
In 1898 a composition was made with him, the terms of which were unfortunately not defined with sufficient clearness, and he retired into the Tambunan country, to the east of the range which runs parallel with the west coast, where for a period he lorded it unchecked over the Dusun tribes of the valley.
They use fresh ingredients but unfortunately have limited vegetarian choices.
Unfortunately, she couldn't think of an explanation that would be true and make him feel better.
I wouldn't do it if we were the first but unfortunately, we won't be the last, either.
Unfortunately, 'No Trespassing' is a more familiar sign to this sport, than this one.
Unfortunately, Arnie needs a babysitter, someone who can hush up anything he says that he shouldn't.
The merits of this weir in being easily raised against a strong current and in allowing of the perfect regulation of the discharge, are unfortunately, under ordinary conditions, more than counterbalanced by the necessity of carrying the drum and its foundations to a greater depth below the sill of the weir than the height of the weir above it.
The climate indeed which favours tropical profusion of jungle growth - still steaming heat - is that most favourable for the cultivation of tea, and such climate, unfortunately, is often trying to the health of Europeans.
Carlyle meanwhile was suffering domestic troubles, unfortunately not exceptional in their nature, though the exceptional intellect and characters of the persons concerned have given them unusual prominence.
In adopting verse instead of prose as a medium of expression, Schiller showed that he was prepared to challenge comparison with the great dramatic poets of other times and other lands; but in seeking a model for this higher type of tragedy he unfortunately turned rather to the classic theatre of France than to the English drama which Lessing, a little earlier, had pronounced more congenial to the German temperament.
Unfortunately, it is very sparing of details.
Unfortunately at this point our best authority ceases; and we cannot well explain the changes which brought about the Christianization of the Normans and their settlement in Normandy as vassals, though recalcitrant ones, of the West Frankish kings.
He was unfortunately hardly less marked for cruelty and faithlessness.
Unfortunately, the precise age of the formation from which it was obtained is unknown, but it is considered probable that it dates from the later Tertiary.
Unfortunately the reports transmitted to us differ so widely that it is almost impossible to determine what Pytheas himself stated.
Unfortunately Buckle either could not define, or cared not to define, the general conceptions with which he worked, such as those denoted by the terms "civilization," "history," "science," "law," "scepticism," and "protective spirit"; the consequence is that his arguments are often fallacies.
The regent had great qualities, both brilliant and solid, which were unfortunately spoilt by an excessive taste for pleasure.
Unfortunately, there is very little evidence in the biblical history for the subsequent career of Samaria, but it is clear that the old Israel of the dynasties of Omri and Jehu received crushing blows.
Unfortunately the events of his age are shrouded in obscurity, but one can recognize the return of exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem and its environs - now half-Edomite - and various internal rivalries which culminate in the Samaritan schism.'