ill-starred

comparative more ill-starred · superlative most ill-starred

1. Doomed to a bad fate; hapless.

   […] it appears the possibility of the ill-starred Uxbridge-Rickmansworth rail link being built is now bound up with post-war planning. [it was never built]

   1945 January and February, H. Langford Lewis, “The Uxbridge & Rickmansworth Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 8

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   "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?"

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 94

   Synonyms: ill-omened, star-crossed, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous