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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ill-fated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an ill-fated journey
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture.
▪ But the ill-fated journey was captured for posterity in an extraordinary collection of photographs.
▪ I couldn't believe it when I saw it cos we had just cemented the ill-fated Admiral deal.
▪ I retraced the footsteps of the young victim as she set about her ill-fated round that morning.
▪ Of course, yes, the ill-fated visitor, the peripatetic guest.
▪ The cash will be handed to Belfast's Industrial Development Board, which backed his ill-fated car firm.
▪ The story of its ill-fated Paris premiere in 1913, which provoked fighting in the audience, is well known.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ill-fated

ill-fated \ill-fated\ adj. 1. marked by or promising bad fortune; unsuccessful; as, an ill-fated business venture.

Syn: ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky.

Wiktionary
ill-fated

a. unlucky; doomed.

WordNet
ill-fated

adj. 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 [syn: doomed, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky]

Usage examples of "ill-fated".

True, she was also elated to know that the faithful Junior had survived their ill-fated crossing of the Cimmaron, but Ross was simply .

Guy proved he could be tender with a fallen foe, and Farina with an ill-fated rival.

In fact, the crew of the ill-fated star ship on which Rei had come to the Artonuee system had been integrated.

FLEEING THE ILL-FATED FIASCO IN THE PALACE, DAMRA and her husband Griffith had made their way through the slumbering city without difficulty.

Now, if he had survived the clash with the Tais, he could always maintain that the documents had been lost with the ship, in his bold and ill-fated attempt to prevent our escape.

The ill-fated Theocracy invasion had taught the predators of Boronia that human beings were easy prey.

The image of the ill-fated resurrectionist had, it seemed, always followed him.

She had been complimented by Mother Aglee herself on the clarity of her report on the ill-fated expedition to the sunside of First Planet.

Rome in 1423, Alberti was apparently still studying in Bologna, while the ill-fated Roman trip in 1428 would have given the men a chance to meet, but Masaccio never returned.

Morning Star satellite was hidden in the lowest level of the palace, below even the bombproof bunker that had just hosted the ill-fated summit meeting.

During the heaviest part of the hurricane a bark went ashore on the Hen-and-Chicken Shoals, just below Cape Henlopen and at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, and Tom Chist was the only soul of all those on board the ill-fated vessel who escaped alive.

I heard it when I labored with Philoctetes in the cordgrass, building his ill-fated boat.

Domanski, a handsome young Pole, whose passionate and ill-fated patriotism had driven him from his native land to find an asylum, like many another Polish refugee, in the Limburg duchy.

Even nonscientists were familiar with the ill-fated astronomer who had been arrested and almost executed by the church for proclaiming that the sun, and not the earth, was the center of the solar system.

The Boers, a thousand or so in number, had descended upon the railway, and an action followed in which the train appears to have had better luck than has usually attended these ill-fated contrivances.