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adj. 1 unlucky, luckless; cursed, out of luck, unblessed,
Colloq down on (one's) luck: She was unfortunate enough to have
married early and divorced late. 2 poor, miserable, wretched,
woebegone, pathetic, dismal, unhappy, forlorn, pitiable, doomed,
ill-starred, star-crossed, ill-fated: These unfortunate
refugees have nowhere to go if we refuse them asylum. 3
deplorable, terrible, awful, catastrophic, disastrous,
calamitous, tragic, lamentable, regrettable, distressing,
upsetting, disturbing, inauspicious, grievous, ruinous: It was
an unfortunate decision, and led to many problems. The flood was
a most unfortunate sequel to the earthquake.
unfounded adj. baseless, groundless, unwarranted, unjustified,
unsupported, unsupportable, unsound, unjustifiable, unattested,
unproven: Reports of a typhoid outbreak are completely
unfounded.
ungodly adj. 1 wicked, sinful, impious, blasphemous, heretical,
irreligious, iconoclastic, atheist(ic), anti-religious,
sacrilegious, demonic, demoniac(al), diabolic(al), satanic,
fiendish, hellish, infernal; depraved, godless, corrupt,
immoral, evil, iniquitous, bad, villainous, heinous, flagitious,
profane, vile: The crusaders believed that they had a duty to
deliver Jerusalem from the ungodly heathens. 2 awful,
outrageous, indecent, monstrous, nasty, dreadful, terrible,
appalling, frightful, shocking, Colloq God-awful, unearthly,
Brit beastly: Margot and I were subjected to another ungodly
evening at the Dawsons'.
ungovernable
adj. unruly, refractory, intractable, unmanageable,
uncontrollable, rebellious, wild, disobedient, unrestrainable,
incorrigible: The nursemaid was saddled with two ungovernable
children whom she had to cosset.
ungraceful
adj. 1 awkward, clumsy, ungainly, lubberly, Colloq all thumbs,
butter-fingered, Slang US and Canadian klutzy: People in the
aerobics class are always ungraceful to start off with. 2
inelegant, graceless, coarse, crude, inartistic, vulgar,
tasteless, unaesthetic, unrefined, barbarous, unlovely, ugly,
unharmonious, unattractive, ill-proportioned, unsymmetric(al),
asymmetric(al): Some regard the Albert Memorial as a paragon of