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
- unhappy [⇒ thesaurus] (dated)
- unpropitious
- unlucky
- wanchancy (UK)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Various
- evil eye
- Friday the thirteenth
- —
- born under an evil star
- born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth
See also
Further reading
- “735. adversity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “unlucky” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.