No matter how you look at it you're a beautiful, ill-fated woman, the heroine of a tragedy.
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Ill-fated
Synonyms for "ill-fated" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
Adjective(16 words)
inauspiciousloweringlucklessmenacingof evil portentominouspoorportendingportentoussinistersomberthreateningtragicunderprivilegedunfavorableunfortunateunhappyunluckyunpromisingunpropitious
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Adjective(1 words)
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1 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 12 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δύσμορος adj (unlucky; doomed)
- δύσποτμος adj (unlucky; doomed)
- κακόμοιρος adj (unlucky; doomed)
Bulgarian
1 entries- злочест adj (unlucky; doomed)
French
2 entries- fatidique adj (unlucky; doomed)
- malheureux adj (unlucky; doomed)
Galician
2 entries- desafortunado adj (unlucky; doomed)
- malfadado adj (unlucky; doomed)
German
4 entries- unglücklich adj (unlucky; doomed)
- verhängnisvoll adj (unlucky; doomed)
- vom Pech verfolgt adj (unlucky; doomed)
- zum Scheitern verurteilt adj (unlucky; doomed)
Italian
3 entries- malaugurato adj (unlucky; doomed)
- predestinato adj (unlucky; doomed)
- sfortunato adj (unlucky; doomed)
Macedonian
1 entries- ко́бен adj (unlucky; doomed)
Māori
2 entries- maikiroa adj (unlucky; doomed)
- wairuatoa adj (unlucky; doomed)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- onjlekjlich adj (unlucky; doomed)
Polish
3 entries- feralny adj (unlucky; doomed)
- niefortunny adj (unlucky; doomed)
- nieszczęsny adj (unlucky; doomed)
Russian
3 entries- злополу́чный adj (unlucky; doomed)
- несча́стный adj (unlucky; doomed)
- несчастли́вый adj (unlucky; doomed)
Spanish
2 entries- empecatado adj (unlucky; doomed)
- malhadado adj (unlucky; doomed)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I was born on an ill-fated day.
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Every effort is being made to determine what happened to the ill-fated aircraft.
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The ill-fated tunnel collapsed just months after it was opened.
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