Luck and Misfortune

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Luck noun – Success that is partly the result of chance.

Usage example: some people have all the luck

Misfortune is an antonym for luck in topics: chance, bad luck, good fortune.

Nearby Words: lucky, luckless, luckily, luckiness, lucking

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Misfortune noun – Bad luck or an example of this.

Usage example: our misfortunes of the last year included the loss of a beloved pet

Luck is an antonym for misfortune.

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old	old luck	old misfortune
good	good luck	good misfortune
sheer	sheer luck	sheer misfortune
simple	simple luck	simple misfortune
Other adjectives: constant, massive, extreme, great, serious, outrageous, bad, terrible, horrible, supernatural, incredible, general, eternal, further, ridiculous, tremendous, random, said.

Characters can sometimes hate a certain day of the week, due to bad luck and misfortune that seem to only happen to them on that day.

Source: Hating On Monday
Our Demons Are Different: Demons in this game aren't physical monsters so much as a supernatural force of bad luck and misfortune.

Source: Tabletop Game / Dogs in the Vineyard
Also, Nautical Folklore holds albatrosses to be good omens (perhaps as they often show land is near) and in killing one it was believed you bring on bad luck and misfortune.

Source: Literature / The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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