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Definitions for ill-fated
ill-fat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unluckyadjective

    marked by or promising bad fortune

    "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

Wiktionary

  1. ill-fatedadjective

    Unlucky; doomed.

    My grandfather was originally scheduled to travel on the ill-fated last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, but thankfully had to change his plans at the last minute.

ChatGPT

  1. ill-fated

    Ill-fated refers to something or someone destined to experience unfortunate, disastrous, unsuccessful or undesirable events or outcomes. It often implies an unavoidable fate or destiny marked by bad luck or failure.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ill-fated in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ill-fated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of ill-fated in a Sentence

  1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov":

    Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

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