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Adjective
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Caused by bad luck or misfortune
unfortunate
luckless
unhappy
hapless
ill-fated
ill-starred
star-crossed
miserable
unsuccessful
wretched
blighted
jinxed
snakebit
snakebitten
accident-prone
disastrous
out of luck
pitiful
poor
afflicted
baleful
black
calamitous
cataclysmic
catastrophic
dire
fateful
unfavorableUS
unfavourableUK
untimely
untoward
bad break
hard luck
tough luck
behind eight ball
down on luck
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“One man I thought was unlucky not to make any of the trips was Kent's David Fulton.”
Adjective
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Tending to cause great distress or anxiety
distressing
tragic
lamentable
unfortunate
woeful
grievous
regrettable
deplorable
heartbreaking
distressful
heartrending
tragical
dire
sad
pitiful
upsetting
dreadful
calamitous
appalling
awful
disappointing
terrible
disastrous
shocking
harrowing
disturbing
agonizingUS
heart-rending
wretched
shameful
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Adjective
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Unfortunate, marked by misfortune
inauspicious
ominous
doomed
ill-fated
unfavorableUS
unfavourableUK
cursed
ill-omened
unpromising
unpropitious
adverse
disadvantageous
jinxed
unfortunate
untimely
deleterious
detrimental
ill-starred
ruinous
bringing bad luck
ruined
condemned
hapless
unhappy
luckless
lost
hopeless
bedevilledUK
undone
blighted
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“13 was to prove an unlucky number.”
Adjective
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Likely to lead to an adverse or bad outcome
unfavourableUK
unfavorableUS
adverse
unpropitious
untimely
inauspicious
inopportune
disadvantageous
inconvenient
untoward
ominous
unfortunate
inexpedient
prejudicial
regrettable
calamitous
negative
inconducive
troublesome
unseasonable
counter
harmful
infelicitous
threatening
bad
destructive
detrimental
improper
unpromising
unsuitable
damaging
harsh
unseemly
objectionable
unhappy
unsuited
discommodious
malapropos
unfit
disparaging
ill
inappropriate
inapt
opposed
wrong
gloomy
inadvisable
ill-advised
very bad
ill-suited
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Adjective
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Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others
underprivileged
destitute
poor
needy
impoverished
indigent
penurious
necessitous
disadvantaged
deprived
needful
pauperized
beggared
depressed
neglected
unfortunate
handicapped
hapless
poverty-stricken
in want
hard up
badly off
in need
in straitened circumstances
on the breadline
in reduced circumstances
down and out
as poor as a church mouse
in distress
have-not
ill-fated
ill-starred
in dire straits
unable to keep the wolf from the door
without two brass farthings to rub together
without two pennies farthings to rub together
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Adjective
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Critical, serious or very important in nature, usually in a negative sense
fatal
decisive
final
crucial
destined
determining
doomed
fateful
foreordained
inevitable
predestined
critical
grave
necessary
pivotal
important
momentous
serious
significant
portentous
apocalyptic
key
historic
all-important
epoch-making
weighty
earth-shattering
consequential
far-reaching
world-shaking
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