Luckless - English meaning

adjective

Used to express annoyance or irritation.

Usage examples:

His cursed tidy-mindedness

verb

Invoke or use a curse against.

Usage examples:

It often seemed as if the family had been cursed

adjective

Used to describe something that is annoying to you in an angry way

Usage examples:

It's a cursed nuisance, having to work late every evening!, in recent years i've been cursed with w…

adjective

(of a person or area) in unfavourable circumstances, especially with regard to financial or social opportunities.

Usage examples:

Disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed

verb

Put in an unfavourable position in relation to someone or something else.

Usage examples:

The pension scheme tends to disadvantage women

adjective

Likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.

Usage examples:

The moving story of their doomed love affair

verb

Condemn to certain death or destruction.

Usage examples:

Fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed

adjective

Certain to fail, die, or be destroyed

Usage examples:

This is a doomed city.

adjective

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Usage examples:

Forlorn figures at bus stops

adjective

Looking or feeling alone and sad because you need help but do not expect to get it

Usage examples:

As i left little bobby on his first day of school, he gave me such a forlorn look.

adjective

(especially of a person) unfortunate.

Usage examples:

The hapless victims of the disaster

adjective

Unlucky

Usage examples:

Hapless victims of the earthquake

adjective

Unlucky or certain to experience failure that cannot be avoided

adjective

→  ill-fated

verb

Bring bad luck to; cast an evil spell on.

Usage examples:

The play is jinxed

noun

A person or thing that brings bad luck.

Usage examples:

One was never to wish luck to someone going hunting or fishing, as it was seen as a jinx

exclamation

Said when two people inadvertently say the same thing at once.

Usage examples:

‘what's happened?’ we both say at exactly the same time. ‘jinx!’

adjective

(of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.

Usage examples:

Their happiness made anne feel even more miserable

adjective

Very unhappy, or causing much unhappiness

Usage examples:

They can make your life miserable if they want to., the forecast is for miserable weather today.

adjective

Unlucky

Usage examples:

Star-crossed lovers

adjective

Having or marked by bad fortune; unlucky.

Usage examples:

There'd been an unfortunate accident

noun

A person who suffers bad fortune.

Usage examples:

Those unfortunates whose lives are marred by poverty

adjective

Not happy.

Usage examples:

An unhappy marriage

adjective

Not feeling pleasure or satisfaction

Usage examples:

It was an unhappy time of her life., they were unhappy about their hotel room (= did not like it) a…

adjective

Having, bringing, or resulting from bad luck.

Usage examples:

An unlucky defeat

adjective

Having or bringing bad luck

Usage examples:

For the unlucky people who get the flu, the health department advises: stay home!

adjective

Not successful.

Usage examples:

An unsuccessful attempt to enter parliament

adjective

Not ending in success, or not achieving success

Usage examples:

After writing three unsuccessful plays, miller finally had a hit., howard’s been unsuccessfully loo…

adjective

(of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.

Usage examples:

I felt so wretched because i thought i might never see you again

adjective

Unhappy or extremely sad

Usage examples:

He looked so ill and wretched as he spoke that he made me feel wretched myself., workers lived in w…