fortuneless

English

Etymology

From fortune +‎ -less.

Adjective

fortuneless (comparative more fortuneless, superlative most fortuneless)

Destitute of a fortune or portion; without money.
(archaic) Unlucky, unfortunate.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  manly limbs endur'd with little care / Against all hard mishaps and fortunelesse misfare.

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