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# unluckily

«unluckily» in Mova's school dictionary: **sadly, because of bad luck; it shows that something went…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (unluckily)

### meaning for a pupil

Unluckily means sadly, because of bad luck; it shows that something went wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unluckily/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a bad chance spoils the plan, and the storyteller says «Unluckily» before the bad news

### examples

- Unluckily, it started to rain just as we set off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unluckily/#x1)
- Unluckily, the bridge was closed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unluckily/#x2)
- Unluckily for the fox, the hen woke up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unluckily/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unluckily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unluckily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.