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out of luck

out of luck prepositional phrase: experiencing a misfortune, especially if lacking recourse.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Experiencing a misfortune, especially if lacking recourse.
    • If you had set up automatic backups, you would have been able to recover your files, but as it is, you're out of luck.

out of luck meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

out of luck in Bengali

দুর্ভাগ্যের শিকার হওয়া

out of luck in Malayalam

luckless, unfortunate, unlucky
ഭാഗ്യമില്ലാത്ത, അഭഗ, ഹതഭാഗ്യമായ, ഉപഹതക, ഭാഗ്യംകെട്ട, മന്ദ

Words formed from out of luck

Questions about out of luck

What does out of luck mean?
Out of luck means experiencing a misfortune, especially if lacking recourse.
What is out of luck in Bengali?
Out of luck in Bengali is দুর্ভাগ্যের শিকার হওয়া. See Out of luck meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is out of luck?
Out of luck is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of luck in the dictionary

  1. out of keeping with
  2. out of kelter
  3. out of key
  4. out of kilter
  5. out of line
  6. out of luck
  7. out of nowhere
  8. out of office
  9. out of one's box
  10. out of one's cotton-picking mind
  11. out of one's depth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: out of luck (page history and authors); out of luck (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); out of luck (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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