Unlucky
adj ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
"I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme."
- 2 Inauspicious.
- 3 Having ill luck.
- 4 Bringing ill luck.
"Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively."
- 1 marked by or promising bad fortune wordnet
- 2 having or bringing misfortune wordnet
Example
More examples"Four is an unlucky number in Japanese."
Etymology
From un- + lucky.
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