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Synonyms for unlucky
ʌnˈlʌk iun·luck·y
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
unlucky
Synonyms:
broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, woful, wretchedAntonyms:
favored, fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful
Princeton's WordNet
unlucky, lucklessadjective
having or bringing misfortune
"Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
Synonyms:
doomed, ill-omened, ill-fated, ill-starred, lucklessAntonyms:
serendipitous, apotropaic, fortunate, lucky, hotdoomed, 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-starredAntonyms:
apotropaic, serendipitous, fortunate, lucky, hot
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unluckyadjective
Synonyms:
unfortunate, unsuccessful, luckless, ill-starredunluckyadjective
Synonyms:
inauspicious, ill-omened
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unluckyadjective
Synonyms:
unfortunate, luckless, ill-starred, unhappy, untoward
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unlucky":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2535 | broken | |
#7488 | fallen | |
#12840 | unfortunate | |
#14263 | crushed | |
#14572 | unhappy | |
#15133 | damned | |
#17102 | miserable | |
#17926 | cursed | |
#19412 | doomed | |
#30945 | wretched | |
#32663 | unlucky | |
#43165 | fated | |
#73225 | unsaved | |
#155941 | luckless | |
#211493 | unredeemed |
How to use unlucky in a sentence?
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.
I definitely needed a little bit of luck, if you look at how unlucky things were with the incident here a few years ago when I ran the bath, I guess the knee, that part of the body was ready to go.
There was no minister as unlucky as me, there were no other ministries where the minister is in prison, the secretary-general is in prison, the head of the oil and gas regulator is in prison and several members of the (parliament) energy commission are in prison.
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.
After they entered the museum. I saw their faces: They were about 10 meters away from me, i managed to hide behind a pillar, there were unlucky people who they killed right there.
Translations for unlucky
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- سيئ الحظArabic
- desafortunat, infortunat, malauratCatalan, Valencian
- nešťastnýCzech
- uheldigDanish
- unglücklichGerman
- άτυχοςGreek
- malfeliĉaEsperanto
- desafortunadoSpanish
- بد شانسPersian
- valitettava, huono-onninen, epäonninen, onneton, pahaenteinenFinnish
- malchanceuxFrench
- बदकिस्मतHindi
- szerencsétlenHungarian
- sfortunatoItalian
- ದುರದೃಷ್ಟಕರKannada
- بار کهوتووKurdish
- infelicisLatin
- wairuatoaMāori
- ongelukkigDutch
- uheldigNorwegian
- nieszczęśliwyPolish
- azaradoPortuguese
- nenorocosRomanian
- несчастливый, невезучий, неудачный, неудачливый, неблагоприятный, зловещий, недобрыйRussian
- olyckligSwedish
- దురదృష్టవంతులైనTelugu
- โชคร้ายThai
- şanssızTurkish
- нещасливийUkrainian
- بدقسمتUrdu
- rủi, không may, bất hạnh, xui xẻo, xui, rủi roVietnamese
- שלימזלניקYiddish
- 倒霉的Chinese
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