Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Destined for misfortune; doomed.
- adjective Causing misfortune: synonym: unfortunate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bringing bad fortune.
- Having bad fortune.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective marked by or promising bad fortune; unsuccessful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Unlucky ;doomed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by or promising bad fortune
Etymologies
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Examples
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Referring to the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos, Aznar said in 2010 that the world must support Israel because "if it goes down, we all go down."
Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future
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Referring to the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos, Aznar said in 2010 that the world must support Israel because "if it goes down, we all go down."
Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future
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Referring to the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos, Aznar said in 2010 that the world must support Israel because "if it goes down, we all go down."
Dovid Efune: Top 10 Non-Jews Positively Influencing The Jewish Future
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Referring to the ill-fated takeover of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos, Aznar said in 2010 that the world must support Israel because "if it goes down, we all go down."
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The OPEN sign is off for good at Olives Cafe & Wine Bar aka the ill-fated Il Buffone in downtown Edmonds.
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The cash equities, equity capital markets and mergers-and-acquisitions units—legacies of the ill-fated 2007 acquisition of ABN Amro—are currently loss-making and will be closed or sold.
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Like the ill-fated British Light Brigade's charge against the Russians in the Crimean War, Pittsburgh's strategy was a suicide mission.
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Last fall, Laura Benanti played a Playboy bunny on the ill-fated NBC show "The Playboy Club."
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The layoffs comes less than three months after H-P's ill-fated TouchPad, touted as a competitor to Apple Inc.'s iPad, first went on sale.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. raised eyebrows last month when it slashed the price of its ill-fated tablet computer less than two months after it hit the market.
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