Luckless
['lʌklɪs] or ['lʌkləs]
Definition
(a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Typed by Geraldine
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous, unsuccessful, ill-fated, ill-starred.
Checker: Monroe
Examples
- Depend on it he was honest, heavy, and luckless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- All his speculations had of late gone wrong with the luckless old gentleman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At this arrangement, highly absurd as it was, not a soul in the room dared to laugh; luckless for the giggler would have been the giggle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His care was the soul, to move the luckless crowd, who relied wholly on him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As she passed me to-night, triumphant in beautymy emotions did her homage; but for one luckless sneer, I should yet be the humblest of her servants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A luckless young female slipped from an insecure hold upon a high branch and came crashing to the ground almost at Kerchak's feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Sleeping thus under the beneficent eye of heaven, can evil visit thee, O Earth, or grief cradle to their graves thy luckless children? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Monroe