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Antonyms for ill-starred
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : il-stahrd |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪlˈstɑrd |
- acceptable
- advantageous
- aiding
- assisting
- auspicious
- blessed
- calming
- cheerful
- comforting
- delightful
- encouraging
- excellent
- favorable
- fortuitous
- fortunate
- glad
- good
- great
- happy
- harmless
- healthful
- healthy
- helpful
- hopeful
- joyful
- joyous
- life-giving
- lucky
- miraculous
- nice
- nourishing
- pleasant
- pleasing
- privileged
- proper
- prosperous
- rich
- successful
- suitable
- timely
- triumphant
- trivial
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- vital
- wealthy
- well-off
- wholesome
- winning
- wonderful
- wondrous
- worthwhile
Definition of ill-starred
- As in star-crossed : adj doomed
- As in tragic : adj catastrophic, very bad
- As in underprivileged : adj poor
- As in unfortunate : adj unlucky, bad
- As in unhappy : adj unfortunate, unlucky
- As in unlucky : adj unfortunate, doomed
- As in untoward : adj troublesome
- As in ill-fated : adj doomed
- As in ill-chosen : adj unfortunate
- As in infelicitous : adj unfortunate
- As in disastrous : adj detrimental, devastating
- As in fatal : adj deadly, lethal
- As in hapless : adj unfortunate
- As in ill-fated/ill-starred : adj doomed
- "My ill-starred novel—my story of Aberdeen Hall," she laughed.
- Extract from : « Mary Ware's Promised Land » by Annie Fellows Johnston
- The Corsican expedition was quite as ill-starred as the French.
- Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
- George Godolphin knew that he alluded to the ill-starred Nick.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of Ashlydyat » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- The less said about this splendid but ill-starred effort the better.
- Extract from : « Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration » by Ernest Giles
- She had no clear ideas, no logic from the other ill-starred home.
- Extract from : « Bannertail » by Ernest Thompson Seton
- Nothing more was said of the affair, nor of the ill-starred Maria Clara.
- Extract from : « The Social Cancer » by Jos Rizal
- One was the ill-starred lady who perished in the Konak in Belgrade.
- Extract from : « The International Spy » by Allen Upward
- His career seems to have been ill-starred and unfortunate from the beginning.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 » by Various
- When I returned from that ill-starred Russian voyage, I flew at once to join you.
- Extract from : « The Span o' Life » by William McLennan
- Pique, very likely, had brought about this ill-starred match with Chatelet.
- Extract from : « Eve and David » by Honore de Balzac
Synonyms for ill-starred
- adverse
- afflicted
- anguished
- annoying
- appalling
- awful
- awkward
- bad break
- badly off
- baleful
- baneful
- behind eight ball
- behind the eightball
- black
- blighted
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cataclysmal
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- contrary
- crushing
- cursed
- damaging
- damned
- deadly
- deathly
- deplorable
- depressed
- deprived
- desolate
- desperate
- destitute
- destroyed
- destructive
- dire
- disadvantaged
- disastrous
- disturbing
- doleful
- doomed
- down and out
- down on luck
- dreadful
- fatal
- fateful
- final
- forlorn
- forsaken
- fractious
- grievous
- grim
- handicapped
- hapless
- hard luck
- hard up
- harmful
- harrowing
- have-not
- heart-rending
- heartbreaking
- hexed
- hopeless
- ill-chosen
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- impoverished
- in a bad way
- in dire straits
- in need
- in want
- inappropriate
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- incurable
- indigent
- indocile
- inept
- inevitable
- infelicitous
- inimical
- inopportune
- intractable
- irritating
- jinxed
- jonah
- killing
- lamentable
- loser
- luckless
- malefic
- malignant
- miserable
- misfortunate
- mortal
- mortiferous
- mournful
- needy
- noxious
- ominous
- out of luck
- pained
- painful
- pathetic
- pernicious
- perverse
- pestilent
- pestilential
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poisonous
- poor
- poor fish
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- regrettable
- ruined
- ruinous
- sad
- sad sack
- shattered
- shocking
- snakebit
- sorrowful
- star-crossed
- stricken
- terminal
- terrible
- tough luck
- tragic
- troubled
- unbecoming
- undisciplined
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- ungovernable
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unmanageable
- unpliable
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unruly
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untimely
- untoward
- unyielding
- vexatious
- virulent
- voodooed
- wild
- woeful
- wretched
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