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 Dovid Efune 2011
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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 Dovid Efune 2011
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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 Dovid Efune 2011
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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."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dovid Efune 2011
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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.
The Seattle Times 2011
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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.
RBS Bids to Shrink to Glory Simon Nixon 2012
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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.
Breaking Down the NFL's Best Weekend Reed Albergotti 2012
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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.
H-P Starts Layoffs in WebOS Unit Ian Sherr 2011
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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.
RIM Loses More Ground Chip Cummins 2011
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