Luckless

3 definitions found

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

  Luckless \Luck"less\, a.
     Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky;
     meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless
     gamester; a luckless maid.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. --Dryden.
     -- {Luck"less*ly}, adv. -- {Lock"less*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  luckless
       adj : having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an
             unlucky date" [syn: {unlucky}] [ant: {lucky}]

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

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "luckless":
     badly off, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, evil-starred, fatal,
     fortuneless, funest, hapless, ill off, ill-fated, ill-starred,
     in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, miserable, ominous,
     out of luck, planet-struck, sad, short of luck, star-crossed,
     unblessed, underprivileged, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky,
     unprosperous, unprovidential, untoward, wretched