Usually means: Regrettably, things did not improve.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. unfortunately: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unfortunately: Merriam-Webster
  3. unfortunately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unfortunately: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unfortunately: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unfortunately, unfortunately: Wordnik
  7. unfortunately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unfortunately: Wiktionary
  9. unfortunately: Dictionary.com
  10. unfortunately: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Unfortunately: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. unfortunately: Rhymezone
  13. unfortunately: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. unfortunately: FreeDictionary.org
  15. unfortunately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. unfortunately: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. unfortunately: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfortunately: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
adverb:  Used (as a parenthetical word) to express disappointment, compassion, sorrow, regret, or grief.

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