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In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.

In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.

Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.

To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize. Fortunately Lady Bell Finley, whom I had promised to chaperon, sent to excuse herself. Hannah More.

Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. -- To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.

Fortunately; luckily. [Obs.] Chaucer.

By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller.

Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. [Colloq.]

rrow "cognitions" to express its import. Sir W. Hamilton. To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges. H. Spencer.

In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [Obs.] Stow.

To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. Hallam.

To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune. [Obs.]