adjective
- Marked by or promising bad fortune."their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons- W. H. Prescott
- synonyms: doomed, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky
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