[syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a.
1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated;
unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an
unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
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Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which
failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of
hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort.
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2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
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Haunt me not with that unlucky face. --Dryden.
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3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unlucky
adj 1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an
unlucky date" [syn: unlucky, luckless] [ant: lucky]
2: marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture
was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture";
"an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put
in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill-
omened, ill-starred, unlucky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "unlucky":
apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful,
boding, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, dark, depressed,
dire, direful, disastrous, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil,
evil-starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless, funest,
gloomy, hapless, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-considered,
ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-timed,
improper, in adverse circumstances, inappropriate, inauspicious,
inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive,
intrusive, irrelevant, late, lowering, luckless, mal a propos,
malapropos, menacing, mistimed, of evil portent, off base, ominous,
out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of time, planet-struck,
portending, portentous, premature, sad, short of luck, sinister,
somber, star-crossed, threatening, too late, too soon, unbefitting,
unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting,
unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious,
unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable,
unsuitable, untimely, untoward, wrong