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ill-fated en · ADJ

Etymology

From ill + fated.

Meanings

1. unlucky; doomed.
   • Yingluck is facing a possible 10-year prison term on charges of negligence linked to an ill-fated rice subsidy programme that cost the state billions of dollars. 2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
   • There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway. 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
   • The engine of the ill-fated mail was Stephenson, one of Whale's 4-6-0 "Experiment" class, which fact led to sensational outcryings in the daily papers about the scandal of "experimental machines" being used on fast trains! 1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:
   • Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season. 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
   • With Christie's words about "all-talk-no-action" in mind, notice that Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as his vice president, Joe Biden, were all senators, the last two serving for two or three decades, respectively. Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel. 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English:
   • My grandfather was originally scheduled to travel on the ill-fated last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, but thankfully had to change his plans at the last minute.
   • In February 1927, eight short months before minstrel Al Jolson sang “My Mammy” to enthralled moviegoers who had never before heard pictures talk, the ill-fated silent movie industry had itself one last fling: Paramount Pictures' romantic comedy It, […] 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 24:

Forms

Deriveds

ill-fatedly · ill-fatedness

Synonyms

cussed · nefastous · ill-fated · fey · portentous · sinister · doomed · inauspicious · sentenced · ominous · damned · disastrous · boding · omenic · condemned · presageful · presagious · baleful · done · bodeful · ill-boding · fatal · ill-fated · undone · foreboding · inauspicious · finished · accursed · star-crossed · brooding · ill-starred · dire · inauspicate · star-crossed · accursed · prodigious · fey · foreboding · divine · cursed · augurous · sullen · dead meat · lost · sunk · ill-omened

Translations (27)

fr fatidique (unlucky; doomed) · es malhadado (unlucky; doomed) · es empecatado (unlucky; doomed) · mi maikiroa (unlucky; doomed) · mk ко́бен (unlucky; doomed) · it malaugurato (unlucky; doomed) · de unglücklich (unlucky; doomed) · ru злополу́чный (unlucky; doomed) · grc δύσμορος (unlucky; doomed) · it predestinato (unlucky; doomed) · mi wairuatoa (unlucky; doomed) · de verhängnisvoll (unlucky; doomed) · pl feralny (unlucky; doomed) · it sfortunato (unlucky; doomed) · grc κακόμοιρος (unlucky; doomed) · ru несчастли́вый (unlucky; doomed) · fr malheureux (unlucky; doomed) · de vom Pech verfolgt (unlucky; doomed) · pl nieszczęsny (unlucky; doomed) · pdt onjlekjlich (unlucky; doomed) · de zum Scheitern verurteilt (unlucky; doomed) · gl desafortunado (unlucky; doomed) · grc δύσποτμος (unlucky; doomed) · gl malfadado (unlucky; doomed) · bg злочест (unlucky; doomed) · pl niefortunny (unlucky; doomed) · ru несча́стный (unlucky; doomed)