ill-starred

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ill-starred

adjective more ill-starred · most ill-starred

Doomed to a bad fate; hapless. "Do not name it!" answered he, passionately. "God forgive me! I cannot yet bear its name. But for its ill-starred birth, Henriette might now be living. What is there in that unconscious infant to replace its mother?"
Similar: ill-omened, star-crossed, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding

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@misc{ill_starred_2026,
  title = {ill-starred},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ill-starred},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}