unlucky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English lucky
English unlucky
From un- + lucky.
Inflected forms:
form: unluckier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unlucky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unluckiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unlucky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
"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."
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."
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.
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.
gloss: Inauspicious.
pos: adj
gloss: Having ill luck.
pos: adj
gloss: Bringing ill luck.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Synonyms: hapless
down on one's luck
fortuneless
ill-boding
ill-fated
ill-starred
inauspicious
infelicitous
infortunate
luckless
misadventurous
mischanceful
misfortuned
peak
snakebit
thwart
unchancy
unfavourable
unfortunate
unhappy
unpropitious
unlucky
wanchancy
Antonyms: lucky
Related words: evil eye
Friday the thirteenth
born under an evil star
born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth
predict
Derived words: unluckily
unluckiness
unluckier
unluckiest
unlucky for some
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lumëmadh
lang: Albanian
word: lumëzi
lang: Albanian
word: gullmëzi
lang: Armenian
word: ձախորդ
roman: jaxord
lang: Bulgarian
word: неудачен
roman: neudačen
lang: Catalan
word: infortunat
lang: Finnish
word: epäonninen
lang: Finnish
word: huono-onninen
lang: French
word: malchanceux
lang: French
word: poissard
lang: Hindi
word: अभागा
roman: abhāgā
lang: Irish
word: anrathach
lang: Latin
word: infēlix
lang: Macedonian
word: не́среќен
roman: nésreḱen
lang: Russian
word: невезу́чий
roman: nevezúčij
lang: Russian
word: неуда́чливый
roman: neudáčlivyj
lang: Spanish
word: salado
lang: Spanish
word: basiliqueado
lang: Spanish
word: sapeado
lang: Yiddish
word: שלימזלניק
roman: shlimazldik
lang: Finnish
word: epäonninen
lang: German
word: unglückbringend
lang: German
word: es bringt Unglück
lang: Irish
word: anrathach
lang: Latin
word: infēlix
lang: Macedonian
word: ко́бен
roman: kóben
lang: Russian
word: несчастли́вый
roman: nesčastlívyj
lang: Russian
word: недо́брый
roman: nedóbryj
lang: Spanish
word: mufa
lang: Spanish
word: fucú
lang: Spanish
word: yeta
lang: Spanish
word: yetatore
lang: Spanish
word: yetudo
lang: Turkish
word: uğursuz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اوغورسز
roman: uğursuz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بختسز
roman: bahtsız
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قوتسز
roman: kutsuz