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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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 |
| Notes: | use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone |
| 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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