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Definition: Ill-starred |
Ill-starredAdjective1. 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-starred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Ill-starred Unlucky; fated to be unfortunate. Othello says of Desdemona, "O ill-starred wench!" Of course, the allusion is to the astrological dogma that the stars influence the fortunes of mankind. "Where'er that ill-starred home may lie." Moore: Fire Worshippers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Ill-starredSynonyms: doomed (adj), ill-fated (adj), ill-omened (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Untimeliness | Adjective: ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate,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-starred |
| English words defined with "ill-starred": doomed ♦ ill-fated, ill-omened ♦ unlucky. (references) |
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| "Ill-starred" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-starred" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-starred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pafat (hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, inauspicious, infelicitous, luckless, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward), i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, dismal, forlorn, ill fated, infelicitous, lowlife, miserable, paltry, penurious, pimping, piteous, sorry, unhappy, unlucky, worm). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحوس (ill, ill fated, inauspicious, luckless, unlucky), سئ الطالع (ill fated). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | роден под нещастна звезда, нещастен (abject, hapless, ill fated, inauspicious, lack-all, lorn, poor, sick, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woeful, wretched). (various references) | |
Czech | neblahý (baleful, calamitous, dire, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill fated, inauspicious, ominous, sinister, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references) | |
French | infortuné (ill fated), né sous une mauvaise étoile. (various references) | |
German | von unglück verfolgt (ill fated), von pech verfolgt. (various references) | |
Greek | δύσμοιροσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerencsétlen (calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fey, hapless, ill fated, luckless, misadventurous, miserable, sad, star-crossed, stiff, to sink money in an unfortunate undertaking, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, woeful, woesome, wretched), balsorsú. (various references) | |
Italian | nato sotto una cattiva stella, malaugurato (ill fated, inauspicious, unlucky, untoward). (various references) | |
Manx | meefortanagh (ill-fated, unfortunate), mee-aighoil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-starreday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | infeliz (devoted, disastrous, evil eye, happen, ill fated, ill-paid, in between, infelicitous, Jonah, luckless, sorrowful, unblessed, unfortunate, unhappy, unluckily, unlucky, unsuccessful, wretch, wretched), desonroso (discreditable, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, ignominious). (various references) | |
Romanian | nenorocos (hapless, ill, ill fated, ill-omened, infelicitous, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), nãscut într-un ceas rãu. (various references) | |
Russian | невезучий, злосчастный (ill fated, ill-fated). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlosrećan (ill fated, unlucky), pod nesrećnom zvezdom. (various references) | |
Spanish | malogrado (abortive, ill fated, out of order, wasted), malhadado (ill fated, unhappy), desdichado (hapless, ill fated, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched). (various references) | |
Swedish | som är född under en olycklig stjärna, olycklig (afflicted, distressed, fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, infelicitous, luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wretched). (various references) | |
Thai | ลางร้าย (knell). (various references) | |
Turkish | tâlihsiz (cursed, disastrous, down on one's luck, evil, grief-stricken, hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, inauspicious, infelicitous, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky), kara bahtlı, şanssız (distressed, down on one's luck, evil, fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, inauspicious, luckless, out of luck, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward). (various references) | |
Ukranian | нещасливий (calamitous, hapless, hoodoo, ill fated, infelicitous, luckless, unhappy, wanchancy), бідолашний (caitiff, calamitous, hapless, miserable). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu số tai hại. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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| Italian | 900-Modern | disastro. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l-l-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: dalliers, diallers, dilaters, drillers, lardiest, literals, ralliers, redrills, redtails, retrials, talliers, trailers, trillers. | |
-3 letters: aridest, artsier, astride, dallier, dallies, darters, dartles, derails, details, dialers, dialler, diaster, dilater, dilates, disrate, driller, ladlers, larders, lardier, literal, raiders, railers, rallied, rallier, rallies, realist, redials, redrill, redtail, retails, retards, retrial, rillets, ritards, sallied, sallier, saltier, saltire, slatier, staider, stalled, starred, stellar, stilled, stiller, stirred, strider, tailers, tailles, tallied, tallier, tallies, tardier, tardies, tarried, tarries, tarsier, tillers, tirades, traders, trailed, trailer, trellis, trilled, triller. | |
-4 letters: aiders, airers, airest, airted, aisled, alders, alerts, allied, allies, alters, arider, ariels, ariled, arrest, artels, artier, dalles, darers, darter, dartle, daters, deairs, deasil, delist, deltas, derail, derats, derris, desalt, detail, dialer, dilate, direst, distal, drails, drears, driers, driest, drills, estral, ideals, idlers, idlest, illest, irades, irater, irreal, laders, ladies, ladler, ladles, lairds, laired, larder, lasted, laster, liards, lidars, lilted, listed, listel, lister, liters, litres, raider, railed, railer, raised, raiser, rarest, raster, ratels, raters, redial, redias, relaid, relist, resaid, resail, retail, retard, retial, retral, riders, rilled, rilles, rillet, ritard, sailed, sailer, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, satire, serail, serial, sidler, sierra, siller, silted, sirdar, slated, slater, slider, staled, staler, stared, starer, stelai, stelar, stella, striae, stride, tailed, tailer, taille, talers, taller, tallis, tarred, tarres, telial, terais, terras, tildes, tilers, tilled, tiller, tirade, tirled, trader, trades, trails, treads, triads, trials, triers, trills. | |
-5 letters: adits, aider, aides, ailed, aired, airer, airts, aisle, alder, alert, alist, alter, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arris, artel, aside, aster, astir, dales, darer, dares, darts, dater, dates, deair, deals, dealt, dears, deils, deist, delis, dells, delta, delts, derat, dials, diets, dills, direr, dirls, dirts, ditas, dites, drail, drats, drear, drest, drier, dries, drill, earls, edits, ideal, ideas, idler, idles, ileal, iller, irade, irate, isled, islet, istle, lader, lades, ladle, laird, lairs, lards, lares, laris, lased, laser, lated, later, leads, lears, least, liard, liars, lidar, liers, lilts, liras, lisle, litas, liter, litre, raids, rails, raise, rales, rared, rares, rased, raser, rated, ratel, rater, rates, reads, reals, rears, redia, relit, resid, retia, rials, rider, rides, riels, riled, riles, rille, rills, riser, rites, sated, serai, seral, setal, sidle, sired, sirra, sitar, sited, slate, slide, slier, stade, staid, stair, stale, stall, stare, stead, steal, stela, stied, stile, still, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tared, tares, tarre, tarsi, teals, tears, telia, tells, terai, terra, tesla, tidal, tides, tiers, tilde, tiled, tiler, tiles, tills, tired, tires, tirls, trade, trail, tread, triad, trial, tried, trier, tries, trill, tsade, tsadi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l-l-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: drillmaster. | |
+2 letters: drillmasters. | |
+4 letters: defibrillators, dorsiventrally, quadrilaterals, recrystallized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 73 74 61 72 72 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - s t a r r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0073 0074 0061 0072 0072 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4378781585866784847170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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