Hard-luck
Hard-luck adjective - Having, prone to, or marked by bad luck.
Usage example: a hard-luck ball club that never could get the breaks it needed
Unfortunate and hard-luck are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unfortunate" instead an adjective phrase "Hard-luck".
Unfortunate
Unfortunate adjective - Having, prone to, or marked by bad luck.
Usage example: up to that point in her life she had been unfortunate in love
Hard-luck and unfortunate are semantically related. You can use "Hard-luck" instead an adjective "Unfortunate".
Nearby Word: unfortunately
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- inauspicious and hard-luck
- inauspicious and unfortunate
- unhappy and hard-luck
- unhappy and unfortunate
- untoward and hard-luck
- untoward and unfortunate
- disastrous and hard-luck
- disastrous and unfortunate
- calamitous and hard-luck
- calamitous and unfortunate
- tragic and hard-luck
- tragic and unfortunate
- ill and hard-luck
- ill and unfortunate
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Unfortunate and Hard-luck. (2017). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard-luck/unfortunate
Hard-luck & Unfortunate. N.p., 2017. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard-luck/unfortunate>.
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