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Definition: Ill-fated |
Ill-fatedAdjective1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-fated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-fatedSynonyms: doomed (adj), ill-omened (adj), ill-starred (adj), unlucky (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened. |
Untimeliness | Adjective: ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable; unsuited; inexpedient. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill-fated |
| English words defined with "ill-fated": doomed ♦ ill-omened, ill-starred ♦ Star-crossed ♦ Unchancy, unlucky. (references) |
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 | Group photograph of ill-fated Battery B of the 285th FAOB Major Fair J. Bryant was executive officer and survey officer of the 285th FAOB.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Water color by Edward Wilson of seal. Wilson was a member of the ill-fated Robert Falcon Scott expedition.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Water color by Edward Wilson of leopard seal pursuing penguins. Wilson was a member of the ill-fated Robert Falcon Scott expedition.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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 | Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Business | In the past there have been several ill-fated attempts by Citroen, Nissan (Datsun then), Fiat and Lada to build or assemble selected models in Greece. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ill-fated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-fated" is used about 168 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 168 | 24,050 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-fated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | noodlottig (fatal, fateful), funest (fateful), fataal (fatal, fateful). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fatala (fateful). (various references) | |
Finnish | kohtalokas (fatal, fateful). (various references) | |
German | verhängnisvoll (catastrophic, catastrophically, disastrous, fatal, fatally, fateful, ill fated, ominous), fatal (awkward, dire, embarrassing, fatal, fateful). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terpecahkan, sangar (bringing misfortune, spooky). (various references) | |
Manx | meefortanagh (ill-starred, unfortunate), meechronneydagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | fatal (fateful). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-fateday.(various references) | |
Russian | несчастливый (ill fated, infelicitous, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), злосчастный (ill fated, ill-starred), злополучный (accursed, hapless, ill fated, unblessed). (various references) | |
Spanish | fatal (deadly, desperate, dire, dismal, fatal, fateful, ghastly, lethal). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งพบจุ"จบที่ไม่"ี. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu số, rủi (baleful, unchancy, unhappy, unlucky), bất hạnh (unblest, unhappy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-l-t" | |
-1 letter: flailed, tallied. | |
-2 letters: afield, allied, detail, dilate, failed, faille, fetial, filled, fillet, flited, lifted, lilted, tailed, taille, telial, tilled. | |
-3 letters: ailed, dealt, defat, delft, delta, fated, felid, fella, fetal, fetid, field, filed, filet, fille, flail, flied, flite, ideal, ileal, ladle, lated, telia, tidal, tilde, tiled. | |
-4 letters: adit, aide, alef, alif, alit, daft, dale, date, deaf, deal, defi, deft, deil, delf, deli, dell, delt, dial, diel, diet, dill, dita, dite, edit, fade, fail, fall, fate, feal, feat, fell, felt, feta, fiat, fila, file, fill, flat, flea, fled, flit, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, late, lati, lead, leaf, leal, left, lied, lief, life, lift, lilt, lite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, teal, tela, tell, tide, tied, tile, till. | |
-5 letters: aft, aid, ail, ait, ale, all, alt, ate, dal, del, die, dit, eat, eft, eld, elf, ell, eta, fad, fat, fed, fet, fid, fie, fil, fit, ill, lad, lat, lea, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lit, tad, tae, tea, ted, tel, tie, til. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-l-t" | |
+1 letter: flatlined. | |
+3 letters: battlefield, fibrillated. | |
+4 letters: battlefields, defibrillate. | |
+5 letters: deferentially, defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillator, distastefully. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 66 61 74 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100110 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - f a t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0066 0061 0074 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437878157267867170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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