| Main Entry: | hapless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate |
Synonyms: |
behind the eightball, cursed, hexed, ill-fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, jinxed, jonah, loser, luckless, miserable, poor fish, sad sack, snakebit, star-crossed, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, voodooed, woeful, wretched |
Antonyms: |
fortuitous, fortunate, lucky, well-off |
| Main Entry: | disastrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, devastating |
Synonyms: |
adverse, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, ruinous, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward |
Antonyms: |
blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous |
| Main Entry: | ill-fated/ill-starred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doomed |
Synonyms: |
blighted, catastrophic, destroyed, disastrous, hapless, ill-omened, inauspicious, luckless, misfortunate, ruined, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward |
Antonyms: |
happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, unhappy |
Synonyms: |
commiserable, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, rueful, unlucky, wretched |
Antonyms: |
fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | sad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, distressing |
Synonyms: |
bad, calamitous, dark, dejecting, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, discomposing, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, dreary, funereal, grave, grievous, hapless, heart-rending, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholic, miserable, moving, oppressive, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, saddening, serious, shabby, sorry, tear-jerking, tearful, tragic, unhappy, unsatisfactory, upsetting, wretched |
Antonyms: |
fortunate, great, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | tragic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | catastrophic, very bad |
Synonyms: |
adverse, anguished, appalling, awful, calamitous, cataclysmic, crushing, deadly, deathly, deplorable, desolate, destructive, dire, disastrous, doleful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, forlorn, grievous, grim, hapless, harrowing, heart-rending, heartbreaking, ill-fated, ill-starred, lamentable, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, ruinous, sad, shocking, sorrowful, terrible, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched |
Antonyms: |
advantageous, blessed, good, happy, successful |
| Main Entry: | underprivileged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
Synonyms: |
badly off, depressed, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down and out, handicapped, hapless, hard up, have-not, ill-fated, ill-starred, impoverished, in dire straits, in need, in want, indigent, needy, unfortunate, unlucky |
Antonyms: |
privileged, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | unfortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlucky, bad |
Synonyms: |
adverse, afflicted, broken, burdened, calamitous, cursed, damaging, deplorable, desperate, destitute, disastrous, doomed, forsaken, hapless, hopeless, ill-fated, ill-starred, in a bad way, inappropriate, infelicitous, inopportune, jinxed, lamentable, luckless, out of luck, pained, poor, regrettable, ruined, ruinous, shattered, star-crossed, stricken, troubled, unbecoming, unfavorable, unhappy, unpropitious, unprosperous, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untoward, wretched |
Antonyms: |
fortunate, good, happy, lucky, timely |
| Main Entry: | unhappy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, unlucky |
Synonyms: |
afflicted, cursed, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, misfortunate, troubled, untoward, wretched |
Antonyms: |
fortunate, happy, lucky, timely |
| Main Entry: | unlucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, doomed |
Synonyms: |
afflicted, bad break, behind eight ball, black, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, cursed, dire, disastrous, down on luck, hapless, hard luck, ill-fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, luckless, miserable, ominous, out of luck, star-crossed, tough luck, tragic, unfavorable, unhappy, unsuccessful, untimely, untoward |
Antonyms: |
fortunate, happy, lucky |