Unlucky

3 definitions found

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

  Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a.
     1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated;
        unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an
        unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
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     Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which
           failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of
           hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort.
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     2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
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              Haunt me not with that unlucky face.  --Dryden.
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     3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unlucky
       adj 1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an
              unlucky date" [syn: {luckless}] [ant: {lucky}]
       2: 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}, {ill-starred}]

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

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "unlucky":
     apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful,
     boding, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, dark, depressed,
     dire, direful, disastrous, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil,
     evil-starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless, funest,
     gloomy, hapless, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-considered,
     ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-timed,
     improper, in adverse circumstances, inappropriate, inauspicious,
     inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive,
     intrusive, irrelevant, late, lowering, luckless, mal a propos,
     malapropos, menacing, mistimed, of evil portent, off base, ominous,
     out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of time, planet-struck,
     portending, portentous, premature, sad, short of luck, sinister,
     somber, star-crossed, threatening, too late, too soon, unbefitting,
     unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting,
     unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious,
     unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable,
     unsuitable, untimely, untoward, wrong