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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, dark, depressed, dire, direful, disastrous, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless, funest, gloomy, hapless, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-timed, improper, in adverse circumstances, inappropriate, inauspicious, inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, late, lowering, luckless, mal a propos, malapropos, menacing, mistimed, of evil portent, off base, ominous, out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of time, planet-struck, portending, portentous, premature, sad, short of luck, sinister, somber, star-crossed, threatening, too late, too soon, unbefitting, unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, wrong
Dictionary Results for unlucky:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
unlucky
    adj 1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an
           unlucky date" [syn: unlucky, luckless] [ant: lucky]
    2: 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-fated, ill-
       omened, ill-starred, unlucky]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unlucky \Un*luck"y\, a.
   1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated;
      unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an
      unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
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   Note: 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.
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   2. Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.
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            Haunt me not with that unlucky face.  --Dryden.
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   3. Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag. [Colloq.]
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