- ill-starred as an adjective:
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ill-starred
adjective
1 ill-starred
Marked by or promising bad fortune:
— An ill-starred romance.
synonyms: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky.
Roget 135: ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, ... show more
Roget 735: unfortunate, unblest†, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous†, unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; ... show more
Moby thesaurus: baleful, bodeful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister, star-crossed, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward.
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