jinxed
Under a hex
Jinxed means cursed with bad luck, as if under a spell that causes things to go wrong.
Someone who is jinxed experiences repeated misfortune: Every project he touches fails—he's jinxed.
Objects or situations can also be jinxed: That car is jinxed; it breaks down constantly.
The word implies a pattern of bad luck rather than isolated incidents.
Adverse circumstance or event
- bad luckUnfavorable chance events
- ill-fatedDestined to fail
- doomedDestined for destruction
- star-crossedDoomed by destiny
ill-starred · hapless · luckless · unfortunate · inauspicious · snakebitten · blighted · cursed
Fearful anticipation of harm
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
- portentousOminously significant
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- balefulThreatening harm or misfortune
menacing · dark · eerie · premonitory · warning · bad sign · omen · harbinger
Invoked harm through words
- hexMalevolent incantation
- spellArrange letters correctly
- voodooFolk magic, often Caribbean
- hoodooFolk magic tradition
witchcraft · sorcery · black magic · malediction · incantation · bewitchment · enchantment · conjuration
Unbroken series
- losing streakSeries of consecutive defeats
- slumpExtended period of decline
- chokeObstruct breathing or airflow
- collapseSudden structural failure
drought · commentator's curse · no-hitter · shutout · perfect game · momentum · bad bounce
misfortune
Adverse circumstance or event
star-crossed · ill-starred · hapless · luckless · unfortunate · inauspicious · snakebitten · blighted · cursed · ill-omened
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
- portentousOminously significant
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
baleful · menacing · dark · eerie · premonitory · warning · bad sign · omen · harbinger · foreshadowing
curse
Invoked harm through words
hoodoo · witchcraft · sorcery · black magic · malediction · incantation · bewitchment · enchantment · conjuration · evil eye
streak
Unbroken series
- losing streakSeries of consecutive defeats
- slumpExtended period of decline
- chokeObstruct breathing or airflow
collapse · drought · commentator's curse · no-hitter · shutout · perfect game · momentum · bad bounce
- supernatural statesenchanted, bewitched, hexed, cursed, possessed
- fortunelucky, luck, fortune, fate, destiny
- superstitionblack cat, broken mirror, Friday the 13th, walking under ladder, evil eye
- unfortunatesvictims, unfortunate, wretch, poor soul, lost soul
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- captivatedspellbound, entranced, enthralled, mesmerized, rapt
- reverse jinxStating bad outcome superstitiously
- reverse jinxesNegative predictions meant to backfire