ill-starred

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ill-starred
    adj 1: 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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Ill-starred \Ill"-starred`\, a.
   Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or
   day.

   Syn: ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky.
        [1913 Webster WordNet 1.5]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-starred":
      baleful, bodeful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated,
      luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister,
      star-crossed, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpromising,
      unpropitious, untoward

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