'Unlucky' definitions:
Definition of 'unlucky'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date" [syn: unlucky, luckless] [ant: lucky]
adjective
Marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill- omened, ill-starred, unlucky]
Definition of 'Unlucky'
From: GCIDE
- Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a.
- 1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious. [1913 Webster]
- Haunt me not with that unlucky face. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unlucky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- dark,
- depressed,
- dire,
- direful,
- disastrous,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- gloomy,
- hapless,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-boding,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-timed,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- late,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- menacing,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- planet-struck,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- wrong