unlucky
Adjective
- Having or bringing bad luck; unfortunate.
- having or bringing misfortune
- "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
Adjective Satellite
- marked by or promising bad fortune; ; ; ; - W.H.Prescott
- "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"
Adj
- Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
- Inauspicious.
- Having ill luck.
- Bringing ill luck.
Examples
- Drawing three blank tiles in a row felt truly unlucky in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From un- + lucky.
Synonyms
doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, luckless, down on one's luck, fortuneless, hapless, ill-boding, inauspicious, infelicitous, infortunate, misadventurous, mischanceful, misfortuned, peak, snakebit, thwart, unchancy, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unpropitious, wanchancy
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
unlucky: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordunlucky: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unlucky: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary