ill-starred

[il-stahrd]

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adjective

doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
disastrous: an ill-starred marriage.

Origin of ill-starred

First recorded in 1595–1605

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Related Words for ill-starred

sad, fateful, miserable, dreadful, deadly, calamitous, unfortunate, pitiful, fatal, harrowing, painful, grievous, pathetic, cataclysmic, disastrous, dire, awful, destructive, grim, terrible

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Historical Examples of ill-starred

"My ill-starred novel—my story of Aberdeen Hall," she laughed.
Mary Ware's Promised Land
Annie Fellows Johnston
The Corsican expedition was quite as ill-starred as the French.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
William Milligan Sloane
George Godolphin knew that he alluded to the ill-starred Nick.
The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Mrs. Henry Wood
The less said about this splendid but ill-starred effort the better.
Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration
Ernest Giles
She had no clear ideas, no logic from the other ill-starred home.
Bannertail
Ernest Thompson Seton

British Dictionary definitions for ill-starred

ill-starred

adjective

unlucky; unfortunate; ill-fated

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