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ill-starred

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ill-starred (lstärd)
adj.
Ill-fated; unlucky. See Synonyms at unfortunate.
ill-starred
adj
unlucky; unfortunate; ill-fated
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ill-starredill-starred - 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
ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky, doomed
unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
ill-starred
adjective doomed, unfortunate, unlucky, unhappy, hapless, inauspicious, star-crossed, ill-omened, ill-fated an ill-starred attempt to create jobs in a deprived area
Translations
ill-starred [ˈɪlˈstɑːd] ADJ → malhadado, malogrado
ill-starred [ɪlˈstɑːd] adj (liter) (person) → nato/a sotto una cattiva stella; (day) → sfortunato/a
ill-starred [ɪlˈstɑːd] adj (liter) (person) → nato/a sotto una cattiva stella; (day) → sfortunato/a


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Poet and sportsman, mystic and man of this world, a great polo player, and the passionate lover of one beautiful woman whose ill-starred fate inspired Po Chu-i, the tenderest of all their singers,** Ming Huang is more to literature than to history.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
Would that he had died in my arms, for so both his ill-starred mother who bore him, and myself, should have had the comfort of weeping and mourning over him.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
Upon the Sandwich Islands it has been employed with no small success in the treatment of scrofulous affections, and in combating the ravages of a disease for whose frightful inroads the ill-starred inhabitants of that group are indebted to their foreign benefactors.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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