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Definitions for unfortunately
un·for·tu·nate·ly
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Princeton's WordNet
unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alasadverb
by bad luck
"unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"
Wiktionary
unfortunatelyadverb
Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
Etymology: un- + fortunate + -ly
Freebase
Unfortunately
Unfortunately is the fourth studio album by Shalabi Effect. It was recorded on three consecutive nights at the Montreal Arts Interculturels Institute live.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'unfortunately' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2402
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'unfortunately' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1318
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'unfortunately' in Adverbs Frequency: #175
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of unfortunately in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of unfortunately in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of unfortunately in a Sentence
I haven't seen convincing evidence that it’s more severe, i think the jury is out on that, but just the fact that so many more children are being infected with this strain means that there will be more children who have severe disease, there will be more children who are hospitalized and, unfortunately, there will be more children who die from COVID, and that’s not something we should allow to happen.
Unfortunately and despite the pressure ... Melissa was under she did not ask for help.
Unfortunately, I see very frequently that the legal system is used as a tool of retaliation, the evidence or lack thereof, will show that there is insufficient evidence to support the claims made against my client. We are looking forward to proving this through the appropriate legal processes.
States still have a monopoly on power, some states may choose not to use it; unfortunately our adversaries dont work that way.
When you are looking at high level athletes it does make it challenging with the difficulties several federations are facing, we do feel globally there is the impression professional sports is unfortunately corrupt because of some of the issues.
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- أسفArabic
- malauradamentCatalan, Valencian
- bohuželCzech
- desværre, uheldigvisDanish
- unglücklicherweise, leiderGerman
- δυστυχώςGreek
- bedaŭrinde, malfeliĉeEsperanto
- desafortunadamente, por desgracia, lamentablemente, desgraciadamenteSpanish
- kahjuksEstonian
- بدبختانه, متاسفانهPersian
- valitettavastiFinnish
- tíverriFaroese
- malencontreusement, malheureusementFrench
- दुर्भाग्य, दुर्भाग्यवशHindi
- sajnosHungarian
- ցավոքArmenian
- regretindeIdo
- þv%C3%AD miðurIcelandic
- sfortunatamente, purtroppo, malauguratamenteItalian
- לצעריHebrew
- 生憎, 残念Japanese
- بهداخهوهKurdish
- infeliciterLatin
- за жалMacedonian
- jammer genoeg, helaasDutch
- uheldigvis, dessverreNorwegian
- niestetyPolish
- infelizmentePortuguese
- к несчастью, к сожалениюRussian
- нажалост, nažalostSerbo-Croatian
- bohužiaľSlovak
- na žalostSlovene
- dessvärre, tyvärrSwedish
- อับThai
- maalesef, ne yazık kiTurkish
- neläboVolapük
- 不幸Chinese
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