different between unfortunate vs bloke

English

Etymology

un- +? fortunate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??tj?n?t/, /?n?f??t???n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??t???n?t/
• Hyphenation: un?for?tu?nate

Adjective

unfortunate (comparative more unfortunate, superlative most unfortunate)

1. not favored by fortune

   Synonym: unsuccessful

   Antonym: fortunate

2. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune

   Synonym: unlucky

   Antonyms: fortunate, lucky

Translations

Derived terms

• unfortunately

See also

• deplorable
• regrettable
• infelicitous
• unsuitable

Noun

unfortunate (plural unfortunates)

1. An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.

Translations

English

Etymology

Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:

• Of Celtic origin, such as Irish ploc (“large, stubborn person”, literally “large, round mass”), itself borrowed from English block
• From Hindi [Term?] or Shelta loke (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bl?k, IPA^(key): /bl??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bloke (plural blokes)

1. (Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
2. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
4. (Britain, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man

   Antonym: (Britain, informal) blokess
5. (Britain, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
6. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

Alternative forms

• bloak (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (Australia, New Zealand): sheila

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• bloke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kolbe

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bloque, from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bloke

1. A block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.