Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Subjected to or marked by misfortune.
- adjective Resulting or likely to result in misfortune; inauspicious: synonym: unfortunate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not lucky or fortunate; not favored by fortune; unsuccessful; subject to frequent misfortune, failure, or mishap; ill-fated; unfortunate; unhappy.
- Not resulting in success; resulting in failure, disaster, or misfortune.
- Accompanied by or bringing misfortune, disappointment, disaster, or the like; illomened; inauspicious.
- Mischievous; mischievously waggish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy.
- adjective Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
- adjective colloq. Mischievous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
unfortunate , marked bymisfortune - adjective
inauspicious - adjective having ill
luck - adjective bringing ill luck
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or bringing misfortune
- adjective marked by or promising bad fortune
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, he appeared to suffer much more from what he termed my unlucky predicament than from his own mishaps.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839
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On a certain unlucky night Ned met McNair at my room.
Aleta Dey 1919
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She let me alone, however; until one unlucky day – I do not mean to call it unlucky, either – when we had, as usual, compositions to write, and the theme given out was "Ruins."
Daisy 1868
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- While both Friday(because Judas was thought to have been the 13th guest at the Last Supper) and 13(because it is an uneven number following the even number 12 widely considered beneficial) had independently been considered unlucky for centuries, the dark nature of Friday The 13th appears to have only originated in the West in the 19th century, possibly with Henry Sutherland Edwards' 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini wherein the date is termed unlucky!
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Dr. Franklin Ruehl 2012
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The news of Gerard's latest dalliance will come as another blow for Jennifer, who has been dogged by the tag unlucky in love since the break-up of her fairytale marriage to Brad Pitt, who went on to have three children and adopt two others in a high profile romance with Angelina Jolie.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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"We were kind of unlucky, which is part of the game," Pereira said.
Stories from The Sun Mitchell Drucker 2008
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"We were kind of unlucky, which is part of the game," Pereira said.
Stories from The Sun 2008
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A character that’s vaguely unlucky is probably pretty bland.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » July » 15 2009
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A character that’s vaguely unlucky is probably pretty bland.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How to Write for Kids 2009
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A character that’s vaguely unlucky is probably pretty bland.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » July 2009
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