unchancy

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adjective

Unfortunate, unlucky.

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Meanings

adjectiveunchancy (comparative more unchancy, superlative most unchancy)

comparative more unchancy · superlative most unchancy

  1. ScotlandUnfortunate, unlucky.
  2. ScotlandDangerous, unsafe.

    the Kinraddies sat them quiet and decent and peaceable in their castle, and heeded never a fig the arguings of folk, for wars were unchancy things.

    1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
peakthwartunfavourableunhappyunlucky

Origin

From un- + chancy.

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Cite this entry
APA

unchancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchancy

MLA

“unchancy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchancy. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unchancy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchancy.

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