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ill luck

ill luck noun: bad luck; misluck; misfortune.

Noun

ill luck (uncountable)

  1. Bad luck; misluck; misfortune.
    • Then, as we have reported, bogie defects came to light on the first few production "Deltics" [...]; these have now been remedied, but inevitably deliveries, trial running and particularly crew training were retarded as a result, so that once again ill luck has dogged the East Coast Route timetable...1961 September, “Background to the new winter timetables of the East Coast”, in Modern Railways, page 528

ill luck meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Odia and Sanskrit

ill luck in Tamil

துர்ப்பாக்கியம், துரதிருட்டம், பாக்கியவீனம், தீயூழ், நற்பேறின்மை, கெடுநிலை

ill luck in Urdu

بدقسمتی, شامت

ill luck in Odia

ill luck
ଧୂମକେତୁ dhumaketu

ill luck in Sanskrit

ill luck
दुरदृष्ट duradṛṣṭa

Synonyms of ill luck

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Forms of ill luck

alternative formill-luck

Questions about ill luck

What does ill luck mean?
Ill luck means bad luck; misluck; misfortune.
What is ill luck in Tamil?
Ill luck in Tamil is துர்ப்பாக்கியம், துரதிருட்டம், பாக்கியவீனம். See Ill luck meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ill luck?
Ill luck is a noun.

Words near ill luck in the dictionary

  1. ill health
  2. ill humor
  3. ill humors
  4. ill humour
  5. ill humours
  6. ill luck
  7. ill name
  8. ill names
  9. ill news spreads apace
  10. ill off
  11. ill repute

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill luck (page history and authors); ill luck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ill luck (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଧୂମକେତୁ (Odia) (page history and authors); दुरदृष्ट (Sanskrit) (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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