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Synonyms for ill-fated
ill-fat·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unluckyadjective
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
Synonyms:
doomed, ill-omened, unlucky, damned, unsaved, fated, unredeemed, cursed, luckless, ill-starredAntonyms:
fortunate
Editors Contribution
star crossed
romeo and juliet were ill-fated from the start
Submitted by ilovestiles13 on March 5, 2022
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "ill-fated":
stricken, afflicted, disaster-hit, tsunami-hit, doomed, bereaved, quake-stricken, unfortunate, quake-hit, affected
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #3153 | affected | |
| #12840 | unfortunate | |
| #15133 | damned | |
| #17926 | cursed | |
| #19412 | doomed | |
| #24108 | stricken | |
| #28700 | afflicted | |
| #32663 | unlucky | |
| #43165 | fated | |
| #46890 | bereaved | |
| #73225 | unsaved | |
| #155941 | luckless | |
| #211493 | unredeemed |
How to use ill-fated in a sentence?
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov":
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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