Ill-fated

3 definitions found

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

  ill-fated \ill-fated\ adj.
     1. marked by or promising bad fortune; unsuccessful; as, an
        ill-fated business venture.
  
     Syn: ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky.
          [WordNet 1.5] Ill-favored



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ill-fated
       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-omened}, {ill-starred}, {unlucky}]

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

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-fated":
     apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark,
     dire, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding,
     gloomy, ill, ill-boding, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious,
     lowering, menacing, of evil portent, ominous, portending,
     portentous, sinister, somber, threatening, unfavorable,
     unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward