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Antonyms for hard luck
Grammar : Adj, noun |
- accomplishment
- achievement
- advantage
- aid
- attainment
- benefit
- blessing
- boon
- boost
- building
- calmness
- cheerful
- comfort
- contentment
- creation
- delight
- ease
- encouragement
- favor
- fortunate
- fortune
- gain
- good fortune
- good luck
- happiness
- happy
- health
- help
- joy
- lucky
- miracle
- peace
- piece of luck
- pleasure
- profit
- prosperity
- relief
- success
- triumph
- victory
- win
- wonder
Definition of hard luck
- As in unlucky : adj unfortunate, doomed
- As in misfortune/mishap : noun bad luck; disaster
- As in bad luck : noun rotten break
- As in misfortune : noun disaster
- As in haplessness : noun misfortune
- As in unfortunateness : noun misfortune
- As in unluckiness : noun misfortune
- As in untowardness : noun misfortune
- As in disaster : noun accident, trouble
- Even in hard luck he patronized the temple, and believed while there was money it could be had.
- Extract from : « Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date » by Anonymous
- Some of that hard luck was in not bein' able to lose his friends.
- Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
- He's had hard luck and he's been in trouble, but he's all right and I know it.
- Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- "They were so handy in case of hard luck," she said, and smiled.
- Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
- It would be hard luck if a woman like you had to ask twice for anything.
- Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge
- "You have had hard luck," said Frank, by way of saying something.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell Down South » by Burt L. Standish
- If Flynn paid money for the yacht, he is the one in hard luck.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Cruise » by Burt L. Standish
- "Hard luck," said Armstrong, looking at Frederick with a grin.
- Extract from : « Tess of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
- But as I was saying, when Tulitz was sent to the Tombs he was in hard luck.
- Extract from : « Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York » by Lemuel Ely Quigg
- Can't you see that it was about as hard luck as a man ever had?
- Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various
Synonyms for hard luck
- accident
- act of God
- adversity
- afflicted
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- bale
- bane
- behind eight ball
- black
- blight
- blow
- burden
- bust
- calamitous
- calamity
- casuality
- casualty
- cataclysm
- cataclysmic
- catastrophe
- catastrophic
- collapse
- collision
- contretemps
- crash
- cross
- crunch
- cursed
- debacle
- defeat
- depression
- devil's own luck
- dire
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- disastrous
- discomfort
- dole
- down on luck
- emergency
- exigency
- failure
- fall
- fell stroke
- fiasco
- flood
- flop
- grief
- hapless
- haplessness
- hard cheese
- hard luck
- hard time
- hardshi
- hardship
- harm
- hazard
- holocaust
- hot water
- ill luck
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- inauspicious
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- luckless
- misadventure
- mischance
- miserable
- misery
- misfortune
- mishap
- nuisance
- ominous
- out of luck
- raw deal
- reverse
- rock
- rotten luck
- rough
- ruin
- ruination
- setback
- slip
- star-crossed
- stroke
- stroke of bad luck
- the worst
- tough break
- tough luck
- tragedy
- tragic
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- undoing
- unfavorable
- unfortunateness
- unhappy
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- unsuccessful
- untimely
- untoward
- untowardness
- upset
- visitation
- washout
- woe
- worry
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