Ill-starred

Synonyms for "ill-starred" (77 found)

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Closest matches (16)

apocalyptic bad badly off baleful baneful black bodeful dark depressed

Adjective(7 words)

augurous baleful bodeful boding brooding dire disastrous

Strong matches (23)

Adjective(3 words)

doomed ill-fated ill-omened

doomful dreary evil fateful foreboding gloomy hapless ill ill-fated ill-off lowering luckless malefic

Adjective(7 words)

fatal foreboding ill-boding ill-fated ill-omened inauspicate inauspicious

Related words (38)

malign menacing ominous out of luck poor portentous sad sinister somber sorry star crossed star-crossed threatening tragic unblessed underprivileged unfavorable unfortunate unhappy unpromising

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unpropitious unprosperous unprovidential untoward

Adjective(13 words)

nefastous omenic ominous peak portentous presageful presagious prodigious sinister star-crossed sullen thwart unfavourable

Adjective(1 words)

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"Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?"

Source: wiktionary

[…] it appears the possibility of the ill-starred Uxbridge-Rickmansworth rail link being built is now bound up with post-war planning. [it was never built]

Source: wiktionary

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