ill-starred

• Adjectif littéraire ou vieilli décrivant quelqu’un ou quelque chose qui est malchanceux ou voué à l’échec, comme placé sous une étoile défavorable.

An old-fashioned adjective describing someone or something that is unlucky or doomed to fail, as if under a bad star.

1. Unlucky or doomedC2formal

   Marked by or destined for misfortune; having an unfavorable fate.

   qui porte malheur, voué à l’échec

   • The ill-starred expedition ended in disaster.
   • Their ill-starred romance was doomed from the start.
   • The ill-starred project was abandoned after a series of failures.

   Synonymescurseddoomedhaplessill-fatedjinxedunfortunateunlucky

   Antonymesblessedfavoredfortunatelucky