Antonyms for ill fated
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : il-fey-tid |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪlˈfeɪ tɪd |
- adequate
- advantageous
- affluent
- aiding
- assisting
- auspicious
- blessed
- bright
- calming
- cheerful
- comforting
- delightful
- effective
- effectual
- encouraging
- excellent
- expectant
- favorable
- fertile
- fortuitous
- fortunate
- fruitful
- glad
- good
- great
- happy
- harmless
- healthful
- healthy
- helpful
- hopeful
- intact
- joyful
- joyous
- kind
- life-giving
- light
- lucky
- miraculous
- nice
- nourishing
- optimistic
- pleasant
- pleasing
- potent
- privileged
- productive
- profitable
- promising
- proper
- propitious
- prosperous
- protected
- restored
- rich
- rosy
- safe
- saved
- secure
- strong
- successful
- sufficient
- suitable
- sunny
- superior
- sweet
- timely
- triumphant
- trivial
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- useful
- vital
- wealthy
- well-off
- wholesome
- winning
- wonderful
- wondrous
- worthwhile
Definition of ill fated
- As in ominous : adj menacing, foreboding
- As in poor : adj unfortunate, unhappy
- As in portentous : adj exciting; foreboding
- 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 unsuccessful : adj failing
- As in ill-fated : adj doomed
- As in accursed : adj cursed
- As in luckless : adj cursed
- As in ill-chosen : adj unfortunate
- As in infelicitous : adj unfortunate
- As in irremediable : adj hopeless
- As in cursed : adj damned, doomed for bad ending
- As in disastrous : adj detrimental, devastating
- As in doomed : adj condemned, hopeless
- As in fatal : adj deadly, lethal
- As in hapless : adj unfortunate
- As in hopeless : adj futile, pessimistic
- As in ill-fated/ill-starred : adj doomed
- Early in the month of July, we were not a little disturbed by the arrival of the crew of our ill omened, ill fated Chesapeake.
- Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
- The ill fated wretch had stolen several pints of water from the barrel that had been untouched, and that water had poisoned him!
- Extract from : « The Survivors of the Chancellor » by Jules Verne
- There was little in the features of this ill fated Princess to atone for the misfortune of her shape and gait.
- Extract from : « Quentin Durward » by Sir Walter Scott
- This brief dialogue will account for much disquietude which subsequently befell our ill fated Dumps.
- Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, Issue 389, September 12, 1829 » by Various
- He was attached to the ill fated army of Bourbaki, and was interned with other prisoners of war in Switzerland.
- Extract from : « Under the Red Crescent » by Charles S. Ryan
- The white light of dawn illuminated the scene; the ill fated tree stump and the dirty drain close by.
- Extract from : « Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) » by James S. De Benneville
- This was Robert, third of that name, and the second of the ill fated family of Stuart who filled the throne of Scotland.
- Extract from : « The Fair Maid of Perth » by Sir Walter Scott
- And he would talk to her about it, she was sure, for Jack had long ago fathomed their ill fated attachment.
- Extract from : « Bluebell » by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
- They were in the ill fated second balcony of the theater and met death trying to reach the fire escape.
- Extract from : « Chicago's Awful Theater Horror » by Various
Synonyms for ill fated
- abortive
- accursed
- adverse
- afflicted
- alarming
- amazing
- anguished
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- astounding
- augural
- awful
- awkward
- bad
- bad break
- badly off
- baleful
- baneful
- bedeviled
- behind eight ball
- behind the eightball
- bewitched
- beyond recall
- black
- blankety-blank
- blasted
- blessed
- blighted
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cast out
- cataclysmal
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- clouded
- commiserable
- condemned
- confounded
- convicted
- crushing
- cureless
- cursed
- cut down
- cynical
- damaging
- damned
- dangerous
- dark
- dead duck
- deadly
- deathly
- defeated
- dejected
- demoralized
- deplorable
- depressed
- deprived
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- destined
- destitute
- destroyed
- destructive
- dire
- direful
- disadvantaged
- disastrous
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- dismal
- doggone
- doleful
- done
- done for
- doomed
- doomful
- down and out
- down on luck
- downhearted
- dreadful
- excommunicate
- execrable
- exhilarating
- extraordinary
- failed
- fatal
- fated
- fateful
- fearful
- fey
- final
- foiled
- forbidding
- foredoomed
- foreordained
- forlorn
- forsaken
- fruitless
- futile
- gloomy
- gone
- goner
- grievous
- grim
- handicapped
- hapless
- hard luck
- hard up
- harmful
- harrowing
- haunting
- have-not
- heart-rending
- heartbreaking
- hell fire
- helpless
- hexed
- hopeless
- hostile
- ill-boding
- ill-chosen
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- impending
- important
- impossible
- impoverished
- impracticable
- in a bad way
- in despair
- in dire straits
- in need
- in the cards
- in want
- inappropriate
- inauspicious
- incurable
- indigent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inevitable
- infelicitous
- infernal
- inhospitable
- inopportune
- inspiring
- intriguing
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- jinxed
- jonah
- killing
- kiss of death
- lamentable
- loser
- losing
- lost
- lowering
- luckless
- malefic
- malificent
- malign
- malignant
- menaced
- menacing
- minatory
- miserable
- misfortunate
- mortal
- mortiferous
- mournful
- needy
- no-win
- noxious
- ominous
- out of luck
- overthrown
- overwhelmed
- pained
- painful
- past hope
- pathetic
- perilous
- pernicious
- pestilent
- pestilential
- phenomenal
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- pointless
- poisonous
- poor
- poor fish
- portentous
- precursive
- predestined
- premonitory
- presaging
- prescient
- prophetic
- que sera sera
- regrettable
- remarkable
- reprobate
- rueful
- ruined
- ruinous
- sad
- sad sack
- sentenced
- shattered
- shocking
- shot down
- sinister
- snakebit
- sorrowful
- star-crossed
- stricken
- suggestive
- sunk
- suppressed
- terminal
- terrible
- threatened
- threatening
- thrilling
- thrown down
- thwarted
- tough luck
- tragic
- troubled
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unbecoming
- undone
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unfriendly
- unhappy
- unholy
- unlucky
- unmitigable
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unredeemed
- unsanctified
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untimely
- untoward
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- villainous
- virulent
- voodooed
- woebegone
- woeful
- worsening
- wrecked
- wretched
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