Synonyms for unlucky
ʌnˈlʌk iun·luck·y

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1. unlucky

   Synonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, woful, wretched

   Antonyms:
   favored, fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful

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1. unlucky, lucklessadjective

   having or bringing misfortune

   "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

   Synonyms:
   doomed, ill-omened, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless

   Antonyms:
   serendipitous, apotropaic, fortunate, lucky, hot

2. doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unluckyadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, damned, unsaved, fated, unredeemed, cursed, luckless, ill-starred

   Antonyms:
   apotropaic, serendipitous, fortunate, lucky, hot

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1. unluckyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unfortunate, unsuccessful, luckless, ill-starred

2. unluckyadjective

   Synonyms:
   inauspicious, ill-omened

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1. unluckyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unfortunate, luckless, ill-starred, unhappy, untoward

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1. List of paraphrases for "unlucky":

   unfortunate, unhappy, miserable

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1. Rothschild:

   Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

2. Dan Gainor:

   I think' Star Wars' will be Star Wars ', far more than the last trilogy, social media now dominates, and Star Wars ' is filled with fans, videos, tweets, photos, Vines and more. The Internet was still young when the second trilogy began. Now excitement has built to a fever pitch and whenever the movie comes out, it will smash its opposition like an Imperial Walker crushing an unlucky Ewok.

3. Vishal Garg:

   If you're on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is being laid off, your employment here is terminated, effective immediately.

4. Butler:

   Man is supreme lord and master Of his own ruin and disaster, Controls his fate, but nothing less In ordering his own happiness: For all his care and providence Is too feeble a defence To render it secure and certain Against the injuries of Fortune; And oft, in spite of all his wit, Is lost by one unlucky hit, And ruined with a circumstance, And mere punctilio of a chance.

5. Susan Hazzard:

   From what I’ve been told nandrolone is high … pig offal has high concentrations of nandrolone. This food truck that I happened to go to that night – I’ve eaten there a lot before – and this food truck serves pig offal as part of their menu and I think I happened to ingest this hormone and 10 hours later, at the peak of when it’s supposed to be in your body and your digesting it, I happened to get tested and honestly it’s a very unlucky series of events, i’m kinda blown away by what happened and I can't believe I’m going through this as a clean athlete.