单词 | ill-starred |
释义 | ill-starred (once / 8237 pages) adj WORD FAMILY starred: ill-starred, unstarred+/co-star: co-starred, co-starring, co-stars/star: co-star, stardom, staringly, starless, starlike, starred, starring, starry, stars, superstar/starry: starrier, starriest, starrily/superstar: superstars USAGE EXAMPLESNot at all because 2016 was lacking for worthwhile movies, but because the year itself was so exhausting and ill-starred and inconceivably, time-bendingly long. Slate(Dec 08, 2016) Few stories capture the hearts of people all over the world as reliably as one about ill-starred lovers. Seattle Times(Oct 03, 2016) He did not tell her that it could also mean the Ill-Starred Knight—the Knight with a Curse on Him. T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) adj marked by or promising bad fortune an ill-starred romance Syn doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, unlucky unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune |
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