bad luck
/bæd lʌk/
bad luck noun: an undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
Noun
bad luck (uncountable)
- An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
- McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
- Synonyms:
- adverseness, adversity, bad cess, disadventure, hard luck, ill luck, illfare, misadventure, mischance, misfortune
- Antonyms:
- felicity, fortune, fortuitousness, fortuity, good cess, good fortune, good luck, happiness, luck
bad luck meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
bad luck in Hindi
- misfortune
- अभाग्य abhāgya, दुर्भाग्य durbhāgya
bad luck in Tamil
- துர்ப்பாக்கியம், துரதிர்ஷ்டம், தீவினை, தீயூழ்
bad luck in Urdu
- bad luck
- سنیچر sanīcar
bad luck in Bengali
- misfortune
- কুফা kupha
More languagesFewer languages
- bad luck in Telugu
- దురదృష్టము duradr̥ṣṭamu
- bad luck in Malayalam
- നിർഭാഗ്യം niṟbhāgyaṁ
- bad luck in Assamese
- ফুটা phuta
- bad luck in Tagalog
- malas
- bad luck in Arabic
- نَحْس naḥs, سُوءُ الحَظّ sūʔu l-ḥaẓẓ, بَلاء balāʔ
- bad luck in Indonesian
- kesialan
- bad luck in Persian
- بَدشانسی badšânsi, بَدبَختی badbaxti
- bad luck in Vietnamese
- họa
Synonyms of bad luck
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Questions about bad luck
- What does bad luck mean?
- Bad luck means an undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
- What is bad luck in Hindi?
- Bad luck in Hindi is अभाग्य (abhāgya), दुर्भाग्य (durbhāgya). See Bad luck meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bad luck?
- Bad luck is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bad luck?
- Bad luck is pronounced /bæd lʌk/.
Words near bad luck in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bad luck (page history and authors); bad luck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سنیچر (Urdu) (page history and authors); ফুটা (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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