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LUCKLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does luckless mean?
• LUCKLESS (adjective)
The adjective LUCKLESS has 1 sense:
1. having or bringing misfortune
Familiarity information: LUCKLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or bringing misfortune
Synonyms:
luckless; unlucky
Context example:
Friday the 13th is an unlucky date
Similar:
hexed; jinxed ((usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune)
Also:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Context examples
Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance—the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Wholly inattentive to her sister's feelings, Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyone's congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever; whilst the luckless Kitty continued in the parlour repined at her fate in terms as unreasonable as her accent was peevish.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The luckless limner, thus suddenly brought out from his dreams, sat up with a piercing yell, while Hordle John bounded back into the circle almost as rapidly as he had left it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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