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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: 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 [syn: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky]
Merriam Webster's
adjective Date: 1604 ill-fated, unlucky< an ill-starred venture >
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Ill-starred Ill"-starred`, a. Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
If you describe something or someone as ill-starred, you mean that they were unlucky or unsuccessful. (LITERARY) ...an ill-starred attempt to create jobs in Northern Ireland. ADJ: usu ADJ n
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
a. Unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, ill-fated, unhappy.
Moby Thesaurus
baleful, bodeful, fateful, foreboding, hapless, ill-fated, luckless, malefic, malign, ominous, portentous, sinister, star-crossed, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward
