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ill-starred

ill-starred adjective: doomed to a bad fate; hapless.

Adjective

ill-starred (comparative more ill-starred, superlative most ill-starred)

  1. Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.
    • "Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?"1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 94
    • […] it appears the possibility of the ill-starred Uxbridge-Rickmansworth rail link being built is now bound up with post-war planning. [it was never built]1945 January and February, H. Langford Lewis, “The Uxbridge & Rickmansworth Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 8

ill-starred meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

ill-starred in Tamil

தீக்கோளில் பிறந்த, அவப்பேறான

ill-starred in Malayalam

ill-fated, doomed, ill-omened
ഗ്രഹപ്പിഴയുള്ള, ദുർദ്ദശയുള്ള, ദുഃസ്ഥിതിയിലായ, അധന്യ, മന്ദഭാഗ്യ, വിപന്ന

Synonyms of ill-starred

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Forms of ill-starred

comparativemore ill-starred
superlativemost ill-starred

Questions about ill-starred

What does ill-starred mean?
Ill-starred means doomed to a bad fate; hapless.
What is ill-starred in Tamil?
Ill-starred in Tamil is தீக்கோளில் பிறந்த, அவப்பேறான. See Ill-starred meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill-starred?
Ill-starred is an adjective.

Words near ill-starred in the dictionary

  1. ill-scathe
  2. ill-scented
  3. ill-seen
  4. ill-sorted
  5. ill-spent
  6. ill-starred
  7. ill-suited
  8. ill-tempered
  9. ill-temperedly
  10. ill-temperedness
  11. ill-thought-out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-starred (page history and authors); ill-starred (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill-starred (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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