malheureux
Meaning
- unhappy, miserable; poor
- 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
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ma.lœ.ʁø/
Etymology
From mal- + heureux. Cognate with Piedmontese maleureus, maleuros.
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