ill-fated
ill-fated adjective: unlucky; doomed.
Adjective
ill-fated (comparative more ill-fated, superlative most ill-fated)
- unlucky; doomed.
- My grandfather was originally scheduled to travel on the ill-fated last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, but thankfully had to change his plans at the last minute.
- The engine of the ill-fated mail was Stephenson, one of Whale's 4-6-0 "Experiment" class, which fact led to sensational outcryings in the daily papers about the scandal of "experimental machines" being used on fast trains!1952 March, R. S. McNaught, “Joint Line Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 196
- Synonyms:
- accursed, fey, foreboding, inauspicious, condemned, cursed, star-crossed, sunk, cussed, damned
ill-fated meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
ill-fated in Tamil
- அழிவு நோக்கிய, கேடுக்கு இட்டுச் செல்கின்ற
ill-fated in Urdu
- ill-fated
- بدقسمت badqismat
ill-fated in Bengali
- ill-fated, eclipsed
- অকায় okaẏ
ill-fated in Malayalam
- damned, doomed, blighted
- മന്ദഭാഗ്യ, അധന്യ, നശിച്ച, നാശംപിടിച്ച, ദുഃസ്ഥിതിയിലായ, നിർഭാഗ്യവാനായ
More languagesFewer languages
- ill-fated in Kannada
- ದುರದೃಷ್ಟದ, ದೌರ್ಭಾಗ್ಯದ, ದುರ್ವಿಧಿಯ, ದುರ್ಗತಿಯ
- ill-fated in Punjabi
- تتا tattā
Examples of ill-fated in a sentence
- Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
- Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel.2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English:
- Yingluck is facing a possible 10-year prison term on charges of negligence linked to an ill-fated rice subsidy programme that cost the state billions of dollars.2017 August 25, "Arrest threat as Yingluck Shinawatra misses verdict", in aljazeera.com, Al Jazeera
- There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
Synonyms of ill-fated
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Forms of ill-fated
| comparative | more ill-fated |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ill-fated |
Origin of ill-fated
From ill + fated.
Words formed from ill-fated
Questions about ill-fated
- What does ill-fated mean?
- Ill-fated means unlucky; doomed.
- What is ill-fated in Tamil?
- Ill-fated in Tamil is அழிவு நோக்கிய, கேடுக்கு இட்டுச் செல்கின்ற. See Ill-fated meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ill-fated in a sentence?
- Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.
- What part of speech is ill-fated?
- Ill-fated is an adjective.
Words near ill-fated in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-fated (page history and authors); ill-fated (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بدقسمت (Urdu) (page history and authors); অকায় (Bengali) (page history and authors); ill-fated (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ill-fated (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تتا (Punjabi) (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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