Definition of unlucky
1 : marked by adversity or failure an unlucky year
2 : likely to bring misfortune : inauspicious an unlucky number
3 : having or meeting with misfortune unlucky people
4 : producing dissatisfaction : regrettable
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Examples of unlucky in a Sentence
She was unlucky enough to get a flat tire on the way to her job interview.
Some people think that 13 is an unlucky number.
He thinks it's unlucky to have a black cat cross your path.
Recent Examples of unlucky from the Web
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Gendry and Arya Stark: The Stark girls have, throughout this series, been unlucky in love.
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Gendry and Arya Stark: The Stark girls have, throughout this series, been unlucky in love.
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Things would be ideal if all these people around her weren’t meeting untimely deaths in unlucky circumstances.
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Six hundred years ago, an unlucky knight may have fallen into or lost his sword in a bog filled with peat.
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Two Iredell County men were among the unlucky bystanders caught up in that Myrtle Beach melee that was broadcast on Facebook Live Sunday.
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Nine months of unwanted pain and possibly death is not an acceptable punishment for being unlucky while engaging in an almost universally practiced past time.
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Kumail Nanjiani may be best known for playing the acerbic, unlucky-in-love computer programmer Dinesh on HBO’s Silicon Valley, but the actor, writer, and comedian has always been a rom-com nut at heart.
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Kumail Nanjiani may be best known for playing the acerbic, unlucky-in-love computer programmer Dinesh on HBO’s Silicon Valley, but the actor, writer, and comedian has always been a rom-com nut at heart.
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First Known Use of unlucky
1530
UNLUCKY Defined for English Language Learners
unlucky
playDefinition of unlucky for English Language Learners
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: having bad luck
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: causing bad luck
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: resulting from bad luck
UNLUCKY Defined for Kids
unlucky
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unluckier
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1 : not fortunate : having bad luck He's been unlucky in love.
2 : marked by bad luck or failure an unlucky day
3 : likely to bring misfortune Are black cats really unlucky?
4 : causing distress or regret … she couldn't ignore the throbbing soreness in her thumb where the thorn had left its unlucky mark. — Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
unluckily
\-ˈlək-ə-lē\ adverbLearn More about unlucky
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