luckless
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈlʌk.ləs/
:
desafortunado
- The luckless hikers lost their way in the woods during a heavy rainstorm.
- a luckless life
Examples
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We should have never followed a luckless pirate and a witch to sea.
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There's a standout section in which the luckless Isabella reveals how Heathcliff medicates her with potions that cause her to have vivid nightmares and visions.
Blog text (6) -
So flat and calm in the wake of all that churning, ugly, luckless battle.
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So he did what all luckless jockeys sooner or later do.
Fiction book (1997) -
The luckless clerk was Ulysses S. Grant.
Academic text (2011) -
There are horrible stories of European ships being pirated, and their luckless crews sold into slavery.
Blog text (1) -
She confused pride with boasting, but that didn't help the luckless student, standing there feeling denied.
Academic text (1996) -
After all, any would-be adventurer may study the markers in the cemeteries of the Alpine village where their luckless predecessors lie.
Fiction book (1998) -
Consider the luckless USS Pueblo, the U.S. intelligence ship seized by North Korea in international waters in 1968. Pyongyang held the crew for 11 months and turned the ship into a propaganda attraction.
Academic text (2005) -
We are here to study the diving habits of sperm whales, but we have spent a luckless two weeks off the coast of central California on the David Starr Jordan, research vessel of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
91
1.0
Having bad luck that causes problems
43
4.1
Not successful when you try to get something you want
26
7.2
Unlucky in a way that makes people feel sorry
19
6.1
Likely to have very bad luck and end badly
7
6.7
Having bad luck, often with money
2
7.9
Having a lot of bad luck that causes many problems
1
7.1
Unlucky and in need of help
1
9.0
Likely to have bad luck and end badly
Without good luck or happiness
Antonyms
How Lucky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word luckless is simply luck + -less, where luck means 'good or bad chance' and -less means 'without', like in hopeless. So a luckless person or thing is 'without luck' — unlucky or marked by bad events.