unlucky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: unluckier
form: more unlucky
form: unluckiest
form: most unlucky
Etymology: From un- + lucky.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338:
text: "So he has a chance," said Connie. "Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived."
ref: 1936, Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, The Shearer′s Colt:
text: Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs. Keppel, as her biographer Diana Souhami has written, "turned adultery into an art."
ref: 1999 February 14, Liesl Schillinger, “The Lost Art of the Love Affair”, in The New York Times:
text: For those unlucky enough to be on a service without lavatory provision, we can only speculate as to how passengers improvised if caught short. For men, it might be possible to urinate, albeit at the risk of offending fellow passengers - there were reports of passengers being hauled up before the courts for 'micturition' in coaches during the 19th century.
ref: 2020 January 2, Dr Mike Esbester, “Waste disposal...”, in Rail, page 36:
text: By random chance alone, 99 times out of 100, the Lions should have won an NFL or NFC championship. Worse for arguably the league’s unluckiest fan base, the Lions haven’t really been competitive.
ref: 2022 February 12, Harry Enten, “Cincinnati Bengals vs. Los Angeles Rams: The unluckiest sports teams and other Super Bowl musings”, in CNN:
glosses: Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
glosses: Inauspicious.
glosses: Having ill luck.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2020 August 24, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
glosses: Bringing ill luck.
Synonyms: word: hapless
word: down on one's luck
word: fortuneless
word: ill-boding
word: ill-fated
word: ill-starred
word: inauspicious
word: infelicitous
word: infortunate
word: luckless
word: misadventurous
word: mischanceful
word: misfortuned
word: peak
word: snakebit
word: thwart
word: unchancy
word: unfavourable
word: unfortunate
word: unhappy
word: unpropitious
word: unlucky
word: wanchancy
Hyponyms: word: cursed
word: doomed
word: ominous
word: shit out of luck
Derived terms: unluckily
unluckiness
unluckier
unluckiest
unlucky for some
Related terms: word: evil eye
word: Friday the thirteenth
word: born under an evil star
word: born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth
word: predict