Antonyms of adj fortunate

3 senses of fortunate

Sense 1
fortunate (vs. unfortunate) -- (having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice")

unfortunate (vs. fortunate) -- (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned")
        => abject -- (most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty")
        => black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful -- ((of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error")
        => dispossessed, homeless, roofless -- (physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern)
        => hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched -- (deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life")
        => doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky -- (marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott)
        => downtrodden -- (abused or oppressed by people in power)
        => infelicitous, unhappy -- (marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series)
        => regrettable, too bad -- (deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church")

Sense 2
fortunate, golden -- (supremely favored; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust")

INDIRECT (VIA blessed) -> cursed, curst -- (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning")

Sense 3
fortunate, rosy -- (presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions")

INDIRECT (VIA auspicious) -> inauspicious, unfortunate -- (not auspicious; boding ill)

Similarity of adj fortunate

3 senses of fortunate

Sense 1
fortunate (vs. unfortunate) -- (having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice")
       => better off (predicate) -- (in a more fortunate or prosperous condition; "she would have been better off if she had stuck with teaching"; "is better off than his classmate")
       => felicitous, happy -- (marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome")
       => fortuitous -- (occurring by happy chance; "profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials")
       => good, well (predicate) -- (resulting favorably; "it's a good thing that I wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no one saw you"; "all's well that ends well")
       => heaven-sent, providential, miraculous -- (peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery")
       => lucky -- (occurring by chance; "a lucky escape"; "a lucky guess")
       => well-off -- (fortunately situated; "doesn't know when he's well-off")
          Also See-> lucky#2; privileged#1; successful#1

Sense 2
fortunate, golden -- (supremely favored; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust")
       => blessed (vs. cursed), blest -- (highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income")

Sense 3
fortunate, rosy -- (presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions")
       => auspicious (vs. inauspicious) -- (auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign")