Ill-fated
Ill-fated adjective - Having, prone to, or marked by bad luck.
Usage example: the ill-fated trip ended in disaster for all
Tragic
Tragic adjective - Of a kind to cause great distress.
Ill-fated and tragic are semantically related in catastrophic topic. Sometimes you can use "Ill-fated" instead an adjective "Tragic".
Nearby Words: tragically, tragical
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- pitiful and ill-fated
- pitiful and tragic
- grievous and ill-fated
- grievous and tragic
- unfortunate and ill-fated
- unfortunate and tragic
- inauspicious and ill-fated
- inauspicious and tragic
- sad and ill-fated
- sad and tragic
- unhappy and ill-fated
- unhappy and tragic
- miserable and ill-fated
- miserable and tragic
Both words in one sentence
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Recycled In Space- It's a tragic love story, with Kaiju as the two ill-fated lovers.
Source: Film / Rodan -
Tragic Hero: Irena, aware and in fear of her cat curse, still enters into an ill-fated relationship.
Source: Film / Cat People -
OS/2 was IBM's ill-fated bid to retake the PC industry from Microsoft after an earlier betrayal that resulted in Windows NT, culminating in OS/2 Warp before it died a richly deserv-ed, tragic death in obscurity (and rebirth as an embedded operating system for ATMs).
Source: Useful Notes / Computer Wars
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