malheureux

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Meaning

  1. unhappy, miserable; poor
  2. insignificant, trifling

Concepts

unhappy

miserable

unfortunate

unlucky

poor

wretched

hapless

pitiful

sad

infelicitous

dismal

woeful

inauspicious

luckless

wretch

unenviable

deplorable

ill-fated

disgruntled

piteable

forlorn

accidental

gloomy

schlemiel

shlemiel

untoward

tough

unfelicitous

ill-starred

pitiable

doomed

miz

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ma.lœ.ʁø/
Etymology

From mal- + heureux. Cognate with Piedmontese maleureus, maleuros.

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