What is another word for ill-fated?
296 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɪlfˈe͡ɪtɪd], [ ˈɪlfˈeɪtɪd], [ ˈɪ_l_f_ˈeɪ_t_ɪ_d]
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Similar words for ill-fated:
- accursed (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- disastrous (adjective)
- doomed (adjective)
- failing (adjective)
- fatal (adjective)
- hapless (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- infelicitous (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- portentous (adjective)
- star-crossed (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- underprivileged (adjective)
- unfortunate (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- unlucky (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- ill-starred (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ill-fated:
adj.
• accursed (adjective) • all (adjective) • disastrous (adjective)- illstarred,
- ruinous,
- unpropitious,
- un favorable,
- ill starred,
- un-propitious,
- un propitious,
- un-favorable.
- killing,
- more malefic,
- more killing,
- in curable,
- most mortiferous,
- more mortiferous,
- more pestilent,
- most killing,
- in-evitable,
- most malefic,
- in-curable,
- in evitable.
- helpless,
- unmitigable,
- unachievable,
- goner,
- up the creek,
- beyond recall,
- in despair,
- past hope,
- no-win,
- shot down,
- irremediable,
- irredeemable.
- illboding,
- un-promising,
- un-friendly,
- in-hospitable,
- pre-cursive,
- in-auspicious,
- in hospitable,
- more doomful,
- most premonitory,
- un friendliest,
- pre-monitory,
- ill boding,
- most doomful,
- more unpromising,
- more malificent,
- most unpromising,
- most malificent,
- pre monitory,
- more precursive,
- un friendlier,
- in auspicious,
- un-friendliest,
- un-friendlier,
- more premonitory,
- pre cursive,
- most precursive,
- un promising,
- most presaging,
- more presaging.
- malefic,
- accursed,
- tough luck,
- thrown down,
- in a bad way,
- un-sanctified,
- hapless,
- unlucky,
- ill-omened,
- infelicitous,
- voodooed,
- Mortiferous,
- fatal,
- premonitory,
- cursed,
- poor,
- Doomful,
- illomened,
- unredeemed,
- hell fire,
- unprosperous,
- ill-chosen,
- ominous,
- hard luck,
- behind eight ball,
- doggone,
- doomed,
- unpromising,
- luckless,
- unsanctified,
- foredoomed,
- cast out,
- in the cards,
- snakebit,
- bad break,
- unfortunate,
- tragic,
- out of luck,
- down on luck,
- disastrous,
- dead duck,
- malificent,
- heart-rending,
- anguished,
- blankety-blank,
- misfortunate,
- Precursive.
- more crushing,
- more heart-rending,
- most heart-rending,
- most heart rending,
- more heart rending,
- heart rending,
- most crushing,
- de solate,
- most anguished,
- more anguished,
- de-solate.
- de pressed,
- de-pressed,
- in want,
- most have-not,
- in dire straits,
- havenot,
- most have not,
- dis advantaged,
- under privileged,
- dis-advantaged,
- have not,
- badly off,
- down and out,
- more have-not,
- more havenot,
- down out,
- under-privileged,
- most havenot,
- more have not,
- in need.
- more unprosperous,
- un-prosperous,
- most unprosperous,
- in appropriate,
- un-fortunate,
- in-appropriate,
- un fortunate,
- un-becoming,
- in bad way,
- out luck,
- more shattered,
- un suitable,
- un prosperous,
- in opportune,
- un becoming,
- most shattered,
- in-opportune,
- un-suitable.
n.
• ill-starred (noun)Other synonyms:
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- Star-crossed.
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- unfavorable.
- dismal,
- damned,
- portentous,
- lachrymose,
- horrible,
- pathetic,
- dark,
- underprivileged,
- calamitous,
- forewarning,
- cheerless,
- pitiful,
- sad,
- bewitched,
- fated,
- bad,
- awful,
- wretched,
- menacing,
- miserable,
- alarming,
- threatening,
- boding,
- tragical,
- baneful,
- foreboding,
- somber,
- fateful,
- mournful,
- distressing,
- dolorous,
- Ill-boding,
- clouded,
- gloomy,
- piteous,
- terrible,
- momentous,
- lugubrious,
- lowering,
- forlorn,
- apocalyptic,
- dire,
- sombre,
- lamentable,
- inopportune,
- dreary,
- shocking,
- cloudy,
- louring,
- unfavourable,
- black,
- unseasonable,
- Bedevilled,
- untimely,
- Portending,
- baleful,
- Bodeful,
- sinister,
- condemned,
- depressing,
- prophetic,
- unsaved,
- upsetting,
- pitiable,
- deplorable,
- of evil portent,
- disturbing,
- ill,
- grievous,
- crushing,
- evil,
- morose,
- woebegone,
- dreadful,
- funereal,
- appalling,
- melancholy.
How to use "Ill-fated" in context?
While most people would describe a career as a successful one, for few it can also be considered ill-fated. For some, the career choices they made led to certain difficulties that never seemed to stop no matter how hard they tried. However, for others, their career choices ended up as dreaded accidents. In some cases, these unfortunate accidents led to devastating injuries or even death.
10 Loved Ones Lost to Career Choice
1. In 2006, Olympic champion Bruce Jenner was involved in a devastating car accident that killed five people and injured 73.
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affected, bereaved, calamitous, catastrophic, detrimental, devastating, dire, disastrous, fatal, miserable, nefarious, ominous, pernicious, sinister, unlucky, wretched, Crashed, worst-hit, quake-hit, quake-stricken, tsunami-hit, fire-affected.
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