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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, adjective
1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
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.
2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
Haunt me not with that unlucky face. --Dryden.
3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unlucky
adjective
1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date" [syn: {luckless}] [ant: {lucky}]
2: 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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "unlucky": 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
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