unlucky

From un- +‎ lucky.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈlʌki/

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• Rhymes: -ʌki

unlucky (comparative unluckier or more unlucky, superlative unluckiest or most unlucky)

1. Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act V, scene ii, page 338:

     I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.

2. Inauspicious.
3. Having ill luck.
4. Bringing ill luck.

• unluckily
• unluckiness
• unluckier
• unluckiest
• unlucky for some

• “unlucky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.