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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. marked by or promising bad fortune;
- Example: "their business venture was doomed from the start"
- Example: "an ill-fated business venture"
- Example: "an ill-starred romance"
- Example: "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott
[syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ill-starred \Ill"-starred`\, a. Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day. Syn: ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky. [1913 Webster WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ill-starred adj 1: marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-starred": baleful, bodeful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister, star-crossed, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward