fortuneless
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fortuneless (comparative more fortuneless, superlative most fortuneless)
- Destitute of a fortune or portion; without money.
- (archaic) Unlucky, unfortunate.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- manly limbs endur'd with little care / Against all hard mishaps and fortunelesse misfare.