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{
"term": "unfortunate",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "having bad luck; caused by bad luck",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was unfortunate to lose in the final round."
},
{
"text": "It was an unfortunate accident."
},
{
"text": "The unfortunate animal was locked inside the house for a week."
}
],
"synonyms": "unlucky",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "consider somebody/something"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "if you say that a situation is unfortunate, you wish that it had not happened or that it had been different",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She described the decision as ‘unfortunate’."
},
{
"text": "It was unfortunate that he couldn't speak English."
},
{
"text": "You're putting me in a **most unfortunate** position."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "consider somebody/something"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "embarrassing and/or offensive",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It was an unfortunate choice of words."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "consider somebody/something"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʌnˈfɔːtʃənət/",
"audio": "un/unfortunate/unfortunate__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʌnˈfɔːrtʃənət/",
"audio": "un/unfortunate/unfortunate__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}