UNFORTUNATE PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfortunate person mean? 

• UNFORTUNATE PERSON (noun)
  The noun UNFORTUNATE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who suffers misfortune

  Familiarity information: UNFORTUNATE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFORTUNATE PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who suffers misfortune

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

unfortunate; unfortunate person

Hypernyms ("unfortunate person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unfortunate person"):

griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))

crier; weeper (a person who weeps)

victim (an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance)

subsister; survivor (one who lives through affliction)

diseased person; sick person; sufferer (a person suffering from an illness)

schlimazel; shlimazel ((Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything)

captive; prisoner (a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war)

have-not; poor person (a person with few or no possessions)

castaway; Ishmael; outcast; pariah (a person who is rejected (from society or home))

nympholept (a person seized by nympholepsy)

abandoned person (someone for whom hope has been abandoned)

maroon (a person who is stranded (as on an island))

failure; loser; nonstarter; unsuccessful person (a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently)

languisher (a person who languishes)

jinx; jonah (a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him)

Job (any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing)

homeless; homeless person (someone unfortunate without housing)

desperate (a person who is frightened and in need of help)

choker (an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation)

amputee (someone who has had a limb removed by amputation)

 Context examples 

I had half started forward, to get over with what I was certain would be a stormy five minutes, when a more violent suffocating paroxysm seized the unfortunate person who was lying on his back.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)