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Synonyms for ill-starred

  • adjective

Most common

unfortunate doomed unlucky luckless

All synonyms

Adjective

unlucky, ill-fated, unfortunate, unhappy, dire, luckless, disastrous, fatal, star-crossed, hapless, sinister, ominous, baleful, doomed, portentous, foreboding, ill-omened, bodeful, calamitous, fateful, untoward, boding

Antonyms

fortunate

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.

Example sentences

  • unfortunate He has shown remorse for the unfortunate incident.
  • doomed Africa's wild animals are doomed to extinction.
  • unlucky It is said that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day.

By length

4 letters
dire1
5 letters
fatal2
6 letters
doomed1, boding
7 letters
unhappy3, unlucky3, ominous3, fateful2, hapless2, baleful2, bodeful
8 letters
sinister3, untoward3, luckless2
10 letters
disastrous3, foreboding3, calamitous4, portentous3
11 letters
unfortunate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fatal2 = 2 syllables).