ill-starred
1Ill-starred — a. Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill starred man or day. Syn: ill fated, ill omened, unlucky. [1913 Webster WordNet 1.5] …
2ill-starred — adj literary unlucky and likely to cause or experience a lot of problems or unhappiness ▪ an ill starred love affair …
3ill-starred — ill fated, disastrous, *unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, luckless, hapless Analogous words: malefic, malign, baleful, *sinister: *ominous, portentous, fateful …
4ill-starred — ill′ starred′ adj. unlucky; ill fated • Etymology: 1595–1605 …
5ill-starred — index ominous, portentous (ominous) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
6ill-starred — [ ,ıl stard ] adjective MAINLY LITERARY not lucky and likely to fail, cause problems, or have problems …
7ill-starred — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unlucky …
8ill-starred — [il′stärd′] adj. [< astrological notion of being born or conceived under an evil star] unlucky or doomed to disaster …
9ill-starred — /il stahrd /, adj. 1. doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill fated; unlucky: an ill starred enterprise. 2. disastrous: an ill starred marriage. [1595 1605] * * * …
10ill-starred — ADJ: usu ADJ n If you describe something or someone as ill starred, you mean that they were unlucky or unsuccessful. [LITERARY] ...an ill starred attempt to create jobs in Northern Ireland …
