ill-starred

[il-stahrd]

adjective

1. doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky.

   an ill-starred enterprise.

2. disastrous.

   an ill-starred marriage.

ill-starred

adjective

1. unlucky; unfortunate; ill-fated

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-starred¹

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

Obviously, this is a commercial musical and not a literary masterpiece on par with Shakespeare’s tragedy of ill-starred lovers.

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But what tilts this ill-starred production into epic disaster is the backstage drama that breaks out when romantic jealousy spreads throughout the company.

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The last time such personal televised revelations came from a senior royal was Princess Diana’s ill-starred BBC “Panorama” interview.

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There are portents aplenty packed into the hold of the ill-starred ship of the title in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter.”

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Apollo, Sixth Street and Warburg Pincus are reportedly among the bidders for GreenSky, the specialty lender that Goldman Sachs bought as part of its ill-starred foray into consumer finance.

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