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unlucky

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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
Main Entry: adverse
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unfavorable, antagonistic

Synonyms:

allergic to, conflicting, contrary, detrimental, disadvantageous, down on, down side, have no use for, inimical, injurious, inopportune, negative, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppugning, ornery*, reluctant, repugnant, stuffy, unfortunate, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, unwilling
Notes: aversion is something that originates from within, whereas adversity is something that originates from without; adverse is usually applied to situations while averse is used to describe a person's attitude
averse means reluctant or disinclined; adverse means hostile and antagonistic

Antonyms:

advantageous, aiding, auspicious, favorable, fortunate, helpful, lucky, propitious
Main Entry: direful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful; horrible

Synonyms:

apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious

Antonyms:

good, nice
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: fatal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: critical, very important

Synonyms:

crucial, decisive, destined, determining, doomed, fateful, final, foreordained, inevitable, predestined, unlucky

Antonyms:

trivial, unimportant, unnecessary
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: ill
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bad, evil

Synonyms:

acrimonious, adverse, antagonistic, cantankerous, cross, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, disrespectful, disturbing, foreboding, foul, harmful, harsh, hateful, hostile, hurtful, ill-mannered, impertinent, inauspicious, inimical, iniquitous, injurious, malevolent, malicious, nocent, nocuous, noxious, ominous, ruinous, sinister, sullen, surly, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unfriendly, ungracious, unhealthy, unkind, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unwholesome, vile, wicked, wrong

Antonyms:

good
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: inauspicious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ominous, unpromising

Synonyms:

bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward

Antonyms:

auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising
Main Entry: ominous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: menacing, foreboding

Synonyms:

apocalyptic, augural, baleful, baneful, clouded, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, doomful, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malefic, malificent, malign, minatory, perilous, portentous, precursive, premonitory, presaging, prescient, prophetic, sinister, suggestive, threatening, unfriendly, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious

Antonyms:

auspicious, happy, lucky, promising, propitious
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