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bad luck
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bad luck has 3 senses
- bad luck(n = noun.state) ill luck, misfortune, tough luck - an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes; Array is a kind of circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion
- bad luck(n = noun.phenomenon) mischance, mishap - an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" is a kind of chance, fortune, hazard, luck
- bad luck(n = noun.event) misfortune - unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event; Array is a kind of trouble
has particulars: weakness, adversity, hard knocks, hardship, gutter, sewer, toilet, hard cheese
Antonym: good luck
has particulars: pity, shame, misadventure, mischance, mishap, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, adversity, hardship, knock
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bad luck
Adversity
N adversity, evil, failure, bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot, frowns of fortune, evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius, vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes, hard case, hard lines, hard life, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, hell upon earth, slough of despond, trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure, pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint, hard times, bad times, sad times, rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind, visitation, infliction, affliction, bitter pill, care, trial, the sport of fortune, mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune, disaster, calamity, catastrophe, accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub, backset, comedown, setback, losing game, falling, fall, downfall, ruination, ruinousness, undoing, extremity, ruin, unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky, improsperous, unprosperous, hoodooed, luckless, hapless, out of luck, in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight, under a cloud, clouded, ill off, badly off, in adverse circumstances, poor, behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone, on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane, in one's utmost need, planet-struck, devoted, born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth, ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened, adverse, untoward, disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.
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