fortuneless

adj — 2 senses

fortuneless

adj

Etymology From fortune + -less.

1

Destitute of a fortune or portion; without money.

2

Archaic Unlucky, unfortunate.

  • manly limbs endur'd with little care / Against all hard mishaps and fortunelesse misfare.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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