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English Dictionary: ill-starred by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ill-starred
adj
  1. 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
    Synonym(s): doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ill-starred \Ill"-starred`\, a.
      Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or
      day.
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