ill-starred

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(formal) not lucky and likely to bring unhappiness or to end in failure: an ill-starred marriage

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

ill-starredEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus ill-starredEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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ill-founded ill-gotten ill humour illiberal illicit ill-informed illiterate ill-judged ill-mannered illness illogical

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Is ill-starred a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, ill-starred is tagged as adjective.

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