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词汇 unlucky
释义 unlucky
adjective[ often+ to infinitive ]
uk /ʌnˈlʌk.i/ us /ʌnˈlʌk.i/
B1
not lucky: 不幸的,不走运的,倒霉的
The couple were unlucky enough to be in the hotel when the terrorist group struck.当恐怖团伙袭击这家宾馆时,很不幸这对夫妇正住在里面。
Synonyms
ill-fated
ill-starredliterary
lucklessliterary
unfortunate(UNLUCKY)
Opposites
fortunateapproving
lucky
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

having bad things happen by chance
unluckyShe is one of the unluckiest people I've ever met.
unfortunateThe unfortunate souls who were lost during the voyage were commemorated once the ship reached port.
haplessHe's always been a hapless, helpless bumbler.
star-crossedBehold the tale of two star-crossed lovers, doomed to spend their lives apart.
lucklessThe luckless council member was caught in the middle of three major ethics investigations of her colleagues.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

resulting in bad things happening by chance
unluckyAn unlucky bounce led to the winning goal against the home team.
unfortunateNo one was to blame - it was just an unfortunate accident.
ill-fatedSeven crew members were killed on the ill-fated voyage.
ill-starredHis ill-starred reign began with a famine and ended with civil war.
I don't believe in the old superstition that the number 13 is unlucky.我不相信数字13不吉利这样的旧迷信思想。
We had a lovely time in Scotland, but we were a bit unlucky with the weather.
We got a parking ticket but Pat and Keith didn't, we were just unlucky.
They were unlucky enough to be at the top of the mountain when the storm came over.
Henman played well and he was unlucky to lose the match.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Good luck and bad luck
align
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
be bad luck on someoneidiom
be down on your luckidiom
be in/out of luckidiom
blessing
fortune cookie
fortune smiles on someoneidiom
get the short end of the stickidiom
godsend
grace
merciful
mercifully
mercy
miracle
misadventure
streak
voodoo
with any luckidiom
your luck's in!idiom

Related word


unluckily

unlucky | American Dictionary


unlucky
adjective
us/ʌnˈlʌk·i/
having or bringing bad luck:
For the unlucky people who get the flu, the health department advises: Stay home!

Examples of unlucky


unlucky
Spurling rejects this as an argument that blames some women, the 'lucky daughters', for denying marriage for their 'unlucky sisters'.
Attempts to compensate the initial unlucky ones in a subsequent divine realm would create further unfairness.
Thus, the hapless crier, for one unlucky moment, became the incarnation of a detested policy and paid the price for decisions made by superiors.
We usually call only contingent circumstances lucky or unlucky.
But it is implausible to say that the correct moral theory should have radically different implications for lucky and unlucky (that is, normal) agents.
And what sign of love could that unlucky one have given you better than following you?
The former, about equal in ability, felt unlucky.
When it comes time to produce the negative prefix, the stored form unlucky will be among the terms selected as possible analogues.
Luckily, the number of unlucky primes is small relative to the total number of estimated primes.
Unlucky may have his arm repaired for much less than $5 million and benefits from the extra cash.
More to the point, how could it be fair to deny the unlucky ones care?
Because the stored form unlucky is identical to the given (target) form, the probability of choosing it is extremely high.
This results in non-uniform coverage and requires some unlucky cities to suffer excessive connection costs.
You were either lucky or unlucky, and neither self care nor medical intervention could make much difference in the long run.
That is traditionally an unlucky day, but one that turned out in this case to be a real treat, at least for us!
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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