English

Adjective

Sense: having bad fortune

Synonyms

• down on one's luck
• fortuneless
• ill-boding
• ill-fated
• ill-starred
• inauspicious
• infelicitous
• infortunate
• hapless
• luckless
• misadventurous(obsolete)
• mischanceful
• misfortuned(archaic)
• peak(MLE)
• snakebit
• thwart(dated)
• unchancy(UK)
• unfavourable
• unfortunate
• unhappy   [⇒ thesaurus](dated)
• unpropitious
• unlucky
• wanchancy(UK)

Antonyms

• lucky   [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• cursed
• doomed   [⇒ thesaurus]
• ominous   [⇒ thesaurus]
• shit out of luck

Various

• evil eye
• Friday the thirteenth
•   —
• born under an evil star
• born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth

See also

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