ill luck
Cursed by chance
Ill luck is bad fortune or misfortune—the opposite of good luck.
The phrase sounds slightly old-fashioned or literary: By ill luck, he arrived just as she was leaving.
It suggests chance working against someone rather than deliberate harm.
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- setbackReverse in progress
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- disasterSudden ruinous event
- calamitySevere misfortune or disaster
catastrophe · ruin · failure · loss · woe · affliction · tribulation · plight
Curse bringing misfortune
- hexMalevolent incantation
- curseInvoked harm through words
- evil eyeHarm-dealing gaze, supposedly
- omenProphetic indicator
black cat · broken mirror · bad sign · portent · thirteen · Friday the thirteenth · voodoo · charm
Doomed by destiny
- haplessLacking good fortune
- unfortunateDeserving of pity
- cursedUnder a malevolent spell
- doomedDestined for destruction
snakebitten · woeful · blighted · crossed · jinxed · hexed · tragic · fated
hardship
Suffering from difficult circumstances
calamity · catastrophe · ruin · failure · loss · woe · affliction · tribulation · plight · distress
jinx
Curse bringing misfortune
omen · black cat · broken mirror · bad sign · portent · thirteen · Friday the thirteenth · voodoo · charm · amulet
star-crossed
Doomed by destiny
- haplessLacking good fortune
- unfortunateDeserving of pity
- cursedUnder a malevolent spell
doomed · snakebitten · woeful · blighted · crossed · jinxed · hexed · tragic · fated · destined
inauspicious
Showing poor prospects
fateful · sinister · menacing · threatening · baleful · portentous · gloomy · dark · shadowy · eerie
ill luckgood luck
Favorable chance or fortune
good fortune · luck · fortune · blessing · stroke of luck
luck, ill, lucky, unlucky, luckily, luckless, bad luck, luckiness, ill-starred