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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having or bringing misfortune;
- Example: "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
[syn: unlucky, luckless]

2. 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:

Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a. 1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game. [1913 Webster] Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort. [1913 Webster] 2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious. [1913 Webster] Haunt me not with that unlucky face. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unlucky adj 1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date" [syn: unlucky, luckless] [ant: lucky] 2: 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:

94 Moby Thesaurus words for "unlucky": apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, dark, depressed, dire, direful, disastrous, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless, funest, gloomy, hapless, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-timed, improper, in adverse circumstances, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, late, lowering, luckless, mal a propos, malapropos, menacing, mistimed, of evil portent, off base, ominous, out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of time, planet-struck, portending, portentous, premature, sad, short of luck, sinister, somber, star-crossed, threatening, too late, too soon, unbefitting, unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, wrong