unlucky
adj/ʌnˈlʌki/
Etymology
Definitions
Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
- "So he has a chance," said Connie. "Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived."
- Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs. Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."
Inauspicious.
Having ill luck.
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Bringing ill luck.
The neighborhood
- synonymhapless
- synonymdown on one's luck
- synonymfortuneless
- synonymill-boding
- synonymill-fated
- synonymill-starred
- synonyminauspicious
- synonyminfelicitous
- synonyminfortunate
- synonymluckless
- synonymmisadventurous
- synonymmischanceful
- antonymlucky
- neighborevil eye
- neighborFriday the thirteenth
- neighborborn under an evil star
- neighborborn with a wooden ladle in one's mouth
- neighborpredict
- neighborcursed
- neighbordoomed
- neighborominous
- neighborshit out of luck
Derived
unluckily, unluckiness, unluckier, unluckiest, unlucky for some
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA