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hard luck
adjective as in unlucky
noun as in bad luck
noun as in disaster
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in haplessness
noun as in misfortune
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in misfortune/mishap
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casuality
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- stroke of bad luck
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
noun as in unfortunateness
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- untowardness
- visitation
- worry
noun as in unluckiness
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unfortunateness
- unluck
- unpleasantness
- untowardness
- visitation
- worry
noun as in untowardness
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unfortunateness
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
Example Sentences
Niky Brown, who owns Hard Luck Tattoo on King Street, said he had "nothing left" following the blaze.
Tidewater gobies are a hardy fish fallen on hard luck.
He added that the upheaval was indicative of the hard luck of California Republicans.
They will also tell a hard luck story after referee Michael Oliver's declined to award a penalty after the video assistant referee studied what looked like a handball by Jack Grealish from Cole Palmer's second-half free-kick before deciding no offence had been committed.
The time for hard luck stories and excuses has gone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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