Synonyms for unfortunately
un·for·tu·nate·ly

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1. unfortunatelyadverb

   Synonyms:
   regrettably, unluckily

   Antonyms:
   fortunately, luckily

2. unfortunatelyadverb

   Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.

   Synonyms:
   regrettably, unluckily

   Antonyms:
   luckily, fortunately

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1. unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alasadverb

   by bad luck

   "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay"

   Synonyms:
   regrettably, unluckily, alas

   Antonyms:
   fortunately, luckily, fortuitously, as luck would have it

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1. List of paraphrases for "unfortunately":

   regrettably, sadly, alas, regretfully, lamentably, tragically, unhappily, already, woefully, deplorably, unfortunate, alack

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1. Facebook Inc:

   Unfortunately, many people not affected by the crisis received a notification asking if they were okay, this kind of bug is counter to the product's intent... We apologize to anyone who mistakenly received the notification.

2. Chyke Doubeni:

   I think it's all well-intentioned, but unfortunately, it doesn't always begin with an end in mind.

3. Moderate House Republican:

   Obviously, I love that man, and I have his support 1,000 %. And unfortunately, Nancy Mace doesn't.

4. Severin Schwan:

   I’ve been preaching, for years if not decades, how important diagnostics is, and how undervalued diagnostics is, unfortunately, countries around the world underinvested into this area, and probably needed something like COVID-19 to recognize the importance of diagnostics.

5. Richard Besser:

   I haven't seen convincing evidence that it’s more severe, i think the jury is out on that, but just the fact that so many more children are being infected with this strain means that there will be more children who have severe disease, there will be more children who are hospitalized and, unfortunately, there will be more children who die from COVID, and that’s not something we should allow to happen.