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1. Fey
Though fey is still used today to mean ‘giving an impression of vague unworldliness or mystery’, the adjective has a long, winding history. It’s earliest known uses relate to death, describing somebody who is fated to die or at the point of death. Unsurprisingly, this was considered pretty unlucky, and ‘unlucky’ is another sense of fey that dates to Old English. In the 19th century this became ‘disordered in mind like one about to die; possessing or displaying magical, fairylike, or unearthly qualities’.尽管fey如今使用的意思是“留下模糊、超脱或神秘的印象”，这个形容词有一个漫长、曲折的历史。它最早的含义与死亡有关，描述人注定要死亡或垂死的。但这个词这被认为是非常不吉利的。老式英语中，“不幸”是fey的另一个含义。在19世纪演变为“神秘的、怪异的”。2. Unseely
Many synonyms for unlucky follow the pattern of negating prefix + word meaning lucky. Somebody unseely is unlucky – indeed, ‘unfortunate, unhappy, miserable, wretched’.很多不幸的同义词遵循的模式为：否定前缀+词义幸运。例如：unfortunate不幸, unhappy不开心, miserable悲惨的, wretched可怜的，同样是“不幸的”。3. Unsele
Similarly, you could also describe a person as unsele, an adjective driving from sele which was a noun meaning ‘happiness, prosperity, good fortune’. Sele could also be added to other words to designate a favourable or proper time for something, such as barley-sele being the season for sowing barley.你可以用unsele来描述一个人，形容词unsele由sele演变而来，sele为名词，表示“开心、好运”。Sele也可以添加到单词之后来表示“该到……时间”，例如barley-sele表示“该播种小麦的时间”。4. Wanspeedy
Also found in Old English, this obsolete adjective comes from the noun wanspeed (‘ill-success; adversity, poverty’) which, in turn, combines wan- (a prefix used to express negation, approximately equivalent to the modern un-) and speed, which, in its earliest uses, meant ‘abundance’.这个老式的英文单词来自名词wanspeed（其含义为：不幸，贫穷），由wan和speed组成，其中wan为否定前缀（含义相当于un），speed最早有“富足”的含义。5. Ungracious
You’ll be familiar with ungracious meaning ‘not polite or friendly’; it literally means ‘without grace’, and so the common contemporary definition applies to one definition of grace. In this instance, using another definition of grace, it can mean ‘without fortune or luck’.
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