Synonyms for unlucky
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uhn-luhk-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈlʌk i |
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Définition of unlucky
Origin :- 1520s, "marked by misfortune or failure," from un- (1) "not" + lucky. Cf. West Frisian unlokkich, Mliddle Low German unluckich. Sense of "boding ill" is recorded from 1540s; that of "having bad luck" is from 1550s; that of "bringing bad luck" is from 1580s.
- adj unfortunate, doomed
- I am to be unlucky in all I do, I think, be my intentions ever so good.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Many a rod, I grieve to say, was worn to the stump on that unlucky night.
- Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Still, anything was liable to happen when his unlucky star was in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- And Charley, unlucky Charley, had managed to get into hot water with the college school.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- A screech-owl is unlucky, and so also is it if a bird fly against the window.
- Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
- This unlucky newspaper was a thorn in the side of every patriot of Carlow County.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- It was the unlucky boat, the boat that was haunted by the gnome.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Ah, that is unlucky; but never mind, we must contrive to get on without it.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- It is evident enough that we have happened on an unlucky day!'
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
Antonyms for unlucky
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