Synonyms for unlucky
ʌnˈlʌk iun·luck·y

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1. unlucky

   Synonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, woful, wretched

   Antonyms:
   favored, fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful

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1. unlucky, lucklessadjective

   having or bringing misfortune

   "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"

   Synonyms:
   doomed, ill-omened, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless

   Antonyms:
   serendipitous, apotropaic, fortunate, lucky, hot

2. doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unluckyadjective

   marked by or promising bad fortune

   "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

   Synonyms:
   doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, damned, unsaved, fated, unredeemed, cursed, luckless, ill-starred

   Antonyms:
   apotropaic, serendipitous, fortunate, lucky, hot

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1. unluckyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unfortunate, unsuccessful, luckless, ill-starred

2. unluckyadjective

   Synonyms:
   inauspicious, ill-omened

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1. unluckyadjective

   Synonyms:
   unfortunate, luckless, ill-starred, unhappy, untoward

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1. List of paraphrases for "unlucky":

   unfortunate, unhappy, miserable

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1. Max Verstappen:

   I think it's still going to be hard, we need a bit of luck as well for that, but I will give everything. Of course we had some really unlucky results but... they( Ferrari) should have been miles ahead of us over the whole year.

2. Margaret Mead:

   People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

3. Hannah Truscott:

   She did n’t think she ’d catch anything because of the date, but I said not everyone can be that unlucky.

4. Filippo Ganna:

   When I see the puncture, I think,' Ah, today unlucky, I lose the race', i changed the bike really well, really fast, like a Formula One race, and then when I crossed the line I think, ‘ OK, now will win Cavagna, ’ because he’s a really good rider, really good time trial.

5. Tony Jacklin:

   I like Fleetwood and I expect him to do something special, i thought he was unlucky at British Open. He succumbed on the third day when the USGA organizers put the pins in stupid places. He shot a 78 while American Brooks Koepka managed a 72 so that was the big difference.