snakebit

Plagued by misfortune

Snakebit describes someone plagued by persistent bad luck, as if cursed by a snake's bite.

The word appears most often in sports contexts for athletes or teams suffering inexplicable losing streaks: The snakebit franchise hasn't won a championship in forty years.

Also spelled snakebitten.

unlucky

jinxed

Afflicted with misfortune

ill-fatedDestined to fail
haplessLacking good fortune
unfortunateDeserving of pity

hard-luck · star-crossed · luckless · cursed · plagued · blighted · ill-starred · woebegone · stricken · troubled

doomed

fate

Predetermined course of events

inevitableCertain to occur
downfallSudden loss of power
ruinComplete destruction or collapse

demise · collapse · disaster · catastrophe · terminal · destruction · ill-omened · fatalistic · sealed · inescapable

fearful

foreboding

Fearful anticipation of harm

dreadIntense anticipatory fear
apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
waryGuardedly alert

skittish · gun-shy · spooked · hesitant · overcautious · flinching · trepidation · anxious · nervous · jumpy

snakebit

jinxed

fate

foreboding

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