Bad Luck

Definition: Bad Luck

Bad Luck

Noun

1. An unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes.

2. An unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all".

3. Unnecessary and unforeseen trouble.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Bad Luck

Adversity

Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.

Crosswords: Bad Luck

Bad luck to run ship over town. (Speed 2: Cruise Control; writing credit: Graham Yost; Jan de Bont)

If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all. (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas)

It's bad luck. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Okay, I wish I wish my Dad's bad luck was over. (The 10th Kingdom; writing credit: Simon Moore)

There's seven years bad luck! Let's see what Ada says about that? (The Other; writing credit: Tom Tryon)

Had some bad luck (Fastlove; performing artist: George Michael)

Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past (Superstition; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

Hope the rain will wash away our bad luck (Electrical Storm; performing artist: U2)

Bad Luck Blackie (1949)

Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)

Cohen's Bad Luck (1907)

Bad Luck Love (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bad Luck (reference)

• Bad Luck Boswell (reference)

• Bad Luck Lion (Animal Emergency, 3) (reference)

• The Bad Luck Charm (Malcolm in the Middle, 3) (reference)

• The Bad Luck Wedding Cake (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bad Luck ( Zezowate Szczescie ) aka "Cross-eyed Luck" (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (reference)

• Born for Bad Luck (reference)

• Seven Years Bad Luck (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

In immunology, U.S. abbot lost a big market because of bad luck in choosing local distributors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bad luck": bring bad luck ♦ dogged by bad luck ♦ propensity to attract bad luck ♦ run of bad luck ♦ streak of bad luck ♦ stroke of bad luck. Additional references.

Albanian

tersllëk (mischance, no go), mossukses (failure, ill luck, no go, reverse, rot), disfatë (baffle, defeat, defection, discomfiture, licking, loss, overturn, reverse, rout). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فال سيئ, ‏نحس (bumper, grim, illness, jinx, misfortune, ominous, sinister), ‏حظ سيئ (hard luck, misadventure), ‏سوء الحظ (misfortune). (various references)

Bulgarian 

невървене, лош късмет (disappointment, hard luck, ill luck, misfortune, mishap). (various references)

Chinese 

冤枉 (hatred, injustice). (various references)

Czech

smùla (hard luck, hoodoo, ill luck, mischance, misfortune, pitch). (various references)

Danish

være uheldig (have bad luck). (various references)

Dutch

wanbof, tegenvaller (disappointment), tegenslag, pech (brakedown), ongelukje. (various references)

Esperanto

malbonŝanco. (various references)

Finnish

toivottaa (wish), huono onni, epäonni. (various references)

French

malchance. (various references)

German

pech (hard lines, hard luck, ill luck, just my luck, misfortune, pitch, that's too bad, tough luck), unglück (accident, adversity, calamity, disaster, evil, hoodoo, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, tragedy, unhappiness, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

κακοτυχία (accursedness, haplessness, ill fortune, lucky, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, rough luck, unluckiness). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזל רע (hard luck). (various references)

Hungarian

pech (hard cheese, hard lines, hard luck, ill luck, mischance, suck), balszerencse (bad break, Deuce, hard luck, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, setback). (various references)

Icelandic

vera óheppinn (have bad luck). (various references)

Indonesian

berabe (nuisance), nasib malang, kecelakaan (accident, calamity, mishap, wreck). (various references)

Italian

sfortuna (accidentprone, mischance, misfortune, mishap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不遇 (misfortune, obscurity), 不吉 (ill omen, inauspiciousness, ominous, sinister). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), ざ�"ね�" (deplorable, disappointment, regret), ふぐう (misfortune, obscurity), ふきつ (ill omen, inauspiciousness, ominous, sinister), ふう�" (fate, misfortune, unlucky), あくう�", やく (about, advantage, approximately, being beneficial, benefit, disaster, evil, gain, misfortune, position, profit, role, service, some, to bake, to be envious of, to be jealous of, to grill, use). (various references)

Manx

drogh-aigh (misfortune), drogh oor (ill-times, misfortune), donnys (affliction, badness, mischief, vileness of weather, woe). (various references)

Norwegian

være uheldig (have bad luck). (various references)

Papiamen

malora. (various references)

Pig Latin

adbay ucklay

Portuguese

má sorte (jinx), azar (accidence, chance, die, hazard, mischance). (various references)

Romanian

nenoroc (ill luck, infelicity, mischance, slip, trouble, unhappiness), ghinion (hard lines, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, phlizz). (various references)

Russian 

невезение (hard luck, ill luck, ill-luck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

baksuz (hoodoo, jinx, jonah), peh, loša sreća (hard luck, ill luck). (various references)

Sotho

bomadimabe. (various references)

Spanish

mala suerte (hard luck, hoodoo, mischance, misfortune). (various references)

Swedish

otur (hoodoo, ill luck, mischance, misfortune). (various references)

Turkish

uğursuzluk (evil, hex, hoodoo, ill luck, ill omen, inauspiciousness, jinx), kör talih (Deuce, doom, ill luck), şanssızlık (adversity, bad, blow, contretemps, hard line, hard luck, hoodoo, ill luck, mischance, misfortune, rotten luck, sorrow). (various references)

Turkmen 

betbagt. (various references)

Welsh

anlwc (misfortune). (various references)

Yucatec

loob (accident, injury, wound). (various references)

foetor ex ore, halitosis, infelicitas. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: baulk, black, cauld, caulk, ducal.

-3 letters: auld, back, bald, balk, baud, buck, bulk, calk, caul, clad, club, daub, dual, duck, lack, laud, luck.

-4 letters: alb, auk, bad, bal, bud, cab, cad, cub, cud, dab, dak, dal, dub, kab, lab, lac, lad.

-5 letters: ab, ad, al, ba, ka, la.

+3 letters: backhauled, blackguard, parbuckled.

+4 letters: blackguards.

+5 letters: blackguarded, blackguardly, swashbuckled.