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Webster 1913 Edition
Unlucky
Un-luck′y
,Adj.
1.
Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy;
as, an
. unlucky
man; an unlucky
adventure; an unlucky
throw of dice; an unlucky
game☞ This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity, as in games of hazard, rather than from lack or feebleness of effort.
2.
Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
Haunt me not with that
unlucky
face. Dryden.
3.
Mischievous;
as, an
. unlucky
wag[Colloq.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Unlucky
UNLUCK'Y
, a.1.
Unfortunate; not successful; as an unlucky man.2.
Unfortunate; not resulting in success; as an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.[This word is usually applied to incidents in which success depends on single events, to games of hazard, &c. rather than to things which depend on a long series of events, or on the ordinary course of providence. Hence we say, a man is unlucky in play or in a lottery; but not that a farmer is unlucky in his husbandry, or a commander unlucky in the result of a campaign.]
3.
Unhappy; miserable; subject to frequent misfortunes.4.
Slightly mischievous; mischievously waggish; as an unlucky boy; an unlucky wag.5.
Ill omened; inauspicious.Haunt me not with that unlucky face.
Definition 2024
unlucky
unlucky
English
Adjective
unlucky (comparative unluckier or more unlucky, superlative unluckiest or most unlucky)
- Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, Act V, scene ii, page 338:
- I pray you in your Letters, / When you ſhall theſe vnluckie deeds relate, / Speake of me, as I am. […] / Of one, whoſe ſubdu'd Eyes, / Albeit un-vsed to the melting moode, / Drops teares as faſt as the Arabian Trees / Their Medicinable gumme.
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- Inauspicious.
- Having ill luck.
- Bringing ill luck.
Derived terms
Translations
unfortunate
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inauspicious
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having ill luck
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bringing ill luck
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References
- unlucky in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913