Thesaurus:unlucky

Thesaurus

unlucky

English

Adjective

Sense: having bad fortune

Synonyms

• down on one's luck
• fortuneless
• ill-boding
• ill-fated
• ill-starred
• inauspicious
• infelicitous
• infortunate
• hapless
• luckless
• misadventurous (obsolete)
• mischanceful
• misfortuned (archaic)
• peak (MLE)
• snakebit
• thwart (dated)
• unchancy (UK)
• unfavourable
• unfortunate
• unpropitious
• unlucky
• wanchancy (UK)

Antonyms

• lucky    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• cursed
• doomed    [⇒ thesaurus]
• shit out of luck

Various

• evil eye
• Friday the thirteenth
•   —
• born under an evil star
• born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth

See also

• Thesaurus:predict

Further reading

• “735. adversity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “unlucky” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.