Ill-starred

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ill-starred \Ill"-starred`\, a.
     Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or
     day.
  
     Syn: ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky.
          [1913 Webster WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ill-starred
       adj : 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}, {unlucky}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-starred":
     baleful, bodeful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated,
     luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister,
     star-crossed, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpromising,
     unpropitious, untoward