Synonyms for ill luck
ill luck

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1. ill luck

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill lucknoun

   an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

   Synonyms:
   mishap, misfortune, tough luck, mischance, bad luck

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1. Samuel Smiles:

   It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

2. Charles Baudelaire:

   It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

3. Miguel de Cervantes:

   As ill-luck would have it.

4. Miguel de Cervantes:

   Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

5. Douglas Gerald:

   Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.