ill-starred

[ il-stahrd ]

/ ˈɪlˈstɑrd /

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adjective

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

disastrous: an ill-starred marriage.

Nearby words

ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-prepared, ill-sorted, ill-spent, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-tempered, ill-timed, ill-treat, ill-treatment

Origin of ill-starred

First recorded in 1595–1605

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Examples from the Web for ill-starred

Sleep in peace, ill-starred daughter of my hapless fatherland!
The Reign of Greed|Jose Rizal
Whatever humor there might have been in the ill-starred situation was destroyed for Madden by his friend's moral relapse.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock|T. S. Stribling
Poor Laud seems to me to have been weak and ill-starred, not dishonest an unfortunate Pedant rather than anything worse.
Heroes and Hero Worship|Thomas Carlyle
This state of things might have endured indefinitely if the ill-starred idea of an experiment had not come into my mind.
The Surprises of Life|Georges Clemenceau

The French vessel sent out to take over the territory was the ill-starred and ill-navigated Mduse.
West African studies|Mary Henrietta Kingsley

British Dictionary definitions for ill-starred

ill-starred

adjective

unlucky; unfortunate; ill-fated

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