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ill luck
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
ill luck
Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.
Synonyms:
adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitationAntonyms:
blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph
Princeton's WordNet
misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill lucknoun
an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
Synonyms:
mishap, misfortune, tough luck, mischance, bad luck
Matched Categories
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1452 | trial | |
#2278 | failure | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#3815 | reverse | |
#4134 | disaster | |
#4320 | ill | |
#5586 | stroke | |
#6159 | harm | |
#12669 | distress | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#15487 | misery | |
#15535 | disappointment | |
#15960 | visitation | |
#18786 | hardship | |
#25754 | bereavement | |
#30603 | adversity | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#34052 | calamity | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#43262 | mishap | |
#81876 | misadventure | |
#82122 | chastisement | |
#194474 | chastening | |
#246182 | mischance |
How to use ill luck in a sentence?
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
All is luck or ill luck in this world.
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
As ill-luck would have it.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Translations for ill luck
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- سوء الحظArabic
- smůlaCzech
- dårligt heldDanish
- UnglückGerman
- malbonŝancoEsperanto
- mala suerteSpanish
- بدشانسPersian
- huonoa tuuriaFinnish
- malchanceFrench
- droch-ádhIrish
- balszerencseHungarian
- kesusahanIndonesian
- sfortunaItalian
- מזל רעHebrew
- 不運Japanese
- � �행Korean
- male fortunaLatin
- ongelukDutch
- dårlig lykkeNorwegian
- pechPolish
- má sortePortuguese
- ghinionRomanian
- неудачаRussian
- oturSwedish
- โชคร้ายThai
- şanssızlıkTurkish
- невдачаUkrainian
- بد قسمتیUrdu
- vận xấuVietnamese
- 倒霉Chinese
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