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adjective
- 1. destined to fail or have many difficulties; unlucky: "an ill-starred expedition"
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resulting in bad things happening by chance. unlucky An unlucky bounce led to the winning goal against the home team. unfortunate No one was to blame - it was just an unfortunate accident. ill-fated Seven crew members were killed on the ill-fated voyage. ill-starred His ill-starred reign began with a famine and ended with civil war.
The meaning of ILL-STARRED is ill-fated, unlucky. How to use ill-starred in a sentence.
adjective [ before noun ] literary us / ˌɪlˈstɑːrd / uk / ˌɪlˈstɑːd / (also ill-omened) Add to word list. → ill-fated. Synonyms. doomed. unlucky. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. resulting in bad things happening by chance. unlucky An unlucky bounce led to the winning goal against the home team.
adjective. marked by or promising bad fortune. “an ill-starred romance”. synonyms: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, star-crossed, unlucky. unfortunate. not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.
If you describe something or someone as ill-starred, you mean that they were unlucky or unsuccessful. [ literary ] ...an ill-starred attempt to create jobs in Northern Ireland.
Ill-starred definition: doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky. See examples of ILL-STARRED used in a sentence.
Definition of ill-starred adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Ill-starred definition: doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky. See examples of ILL-STARRED used in a sentence.
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Define ill-starred. ill-starred synonyms, ill-starred pronunciation, ill-starred translation, English dictionary definition of ill-starred. adj. Ill-fated; unlucky. See Synonyms at unfortunate. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
