All ill-starred synonyms

adj ill-starred

• perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
• disturbing — upsetting or disquieting; dismaying: a disturbing increase in the crime rate.
• poor — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
• doomed — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
• desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
• destroyed — to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate.
• disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
• hapless — unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.
• inauspicious — not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
• luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
• ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
• unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
• unhappy — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
• unlucky — (of a person) not lucky; lacking good fortune; ill-fated.
• untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
• catastrophic — Something that is catastrophic involves or causes a sudden terrible disaster.
• blighted — Plant Pathology. the rapid and extensive discoloration, wilting, and death of plant tissues. a disease so characterized.
• ill-omened — having or attended by bad omens; ill-starred.
• unpropitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
• cataclysmal — of, relating to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
• baleful — Baleful means harmful, or expressing harmful intentions.
• baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
• deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
• final — pertaining to or coming at the end; last in place, order, or time: the final meeting of the year.
• killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
• noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
• pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
• pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
• terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
• pestilential — producing or tending to produce pestilence.
• malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
• mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
• cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
• loser — a person, team, nation, etc., that loses: The visiting team was the loser in the series.
• miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
• sad sack — a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions.
• wretched — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
• infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
• hexed — to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
• jonah — a Minor Prophet who, for his impiety, was thrown overboard from his ship and swallowed by a large fish, remaining in its belly for three days before being cast up onto the shore unharmed.
• snakebit — bitten by a snake.
• damned — Damned is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry or frustrated.
• desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
• doleful — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
• forlorn — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
• lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
• sorrowful — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
• pitiable — evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.