| 单词 | thesaurus/articles/resulting-in-bad-things-happening-by-chance |
| 释义 | Thesaurus article:resulting in bad things happening by chanceresulting in bad things happening by chanceThese words describe things, events, or situations that result in bad things happening to people by chance. One common word for this isunlucky.Unluckydescribes situations or events that result in a bad or undesirable thing happening. An unlucky bounce led to the winning goal against the home team. "I'm ill and can't go to the theatre like we planned!" "Ah, that's unlucky." The opposite ofunluckyislucky.Luckyis used especially of things that are thought to bring a person good luck. I keep this rabbit's foot as a little lucky charm. Another common word for this isunfortunate.Unfortunatecan be used to describe an event or situation that results in something bad happening. It is also used in the phraseit's unfortunate (that)to begin a sentence about something bad that has happened by chance. No one was to blame - it was just an unfortunate accident. The rain delay was unfortunate, given that the match had been previously cancelled. It's unfortunate that he ended up in that situation, but such is life. The opposite ofunfortunateisfortunate.Fortunateis slightly more formal thanunfortunate. Are you waiting for a taxi? How fortunate! We can ride together, then. If something isill-fated, it is unsuccessful and bad things, usually death, happen during it by chance. Seven crew members were killed on the ill-fated voyage. In literature,ill-starredis used to say that something, usually an event, results in bad things happening, and is unsuccessful because of that. His ill-starred reign began with a famine and ended with civil war. Foredoomedis another literary word that is used to describe planned events that result in bad things happening from the moment they begin.Foredoomedandill-starredare not as common as the other synonyms in this article. They sent the wrong envoy to the peace talks - the negotiations were foredoomed. If something, especially an event or a thing, is full of unexpected problems or other bad things that you cannot plan for, almost as if it was under a magic curse, you can say that it iscursedorjinxed. Both of these words are sometimes used humorously. It's just randomly shut down again! This computer is cursed. Between the storm the night before and the washed-out roads in the morning, the bicycle race was cursed from the beginning. That house has been bought and immediately put up for sale again four times in the last two years. It's jinxed. The passengers left the problem-ridden, jinxed cruise ship in the middle of their tour. In informal writing and speech, if you want to show that a situation is particularly unlucky, you can use the wordtough. "Ah, I just missed the deadline!" "Oh, that's tough, mate." "She just missed the game-winning goal. Tough luck there on the pitch." |
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