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star-crossed
adjective as in doomed
adjective as in star-crossed
adjective as in unfortunate
Strongest matches
adjective as in unlucky
adjective as in untoward
Strongest matches
adjective as in ill-fated
adjective as in accursed
adjective as in ill-chosen
Weak matches
- adverse
- afflicted
- awkward
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cursed
- damaging
- deplorable
- desperate
- destitute
- disastrous
- doomed
- forsaken
- hapless
- hopeless
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in a bad way
- inappropriate
- inept
- infelicitous
- inopportune
- jinxed
- lamentable
- luckless
- out of luck
- pained
- poor
- regrettable
- ruined
- ruinous
- shattered
- stricken
- troubled
- unbecoming
- unfavorable
- unhappy
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untoward
- wretched
adjective as in infelicitous
Weak matches
- adverse
- afflicted
- awkward
- broken
- burdened
- calamitous
- cursed
- damaging
- deplorable
- desperate
- destitute
- disastrous
- doomed
- forsaken
- hapless
- hopeless
- ill-chosen
- ill-fated
- ill-starred
- in a bad way
- inappropriate
- inept
- inopportune
- jinxed
- lamentable
- luckless
- out of luck
- pained
- poor
- regrettable
- ruined
- ruinous
- shattered
- stricken
- troubled
- unbecoming
- unfavorable
- unhappy
- unpropitious
- unprosperous
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untoward
- wretched
adjective as in cursed
adjective as in doomed
Strong matches
adjective as in hapless
adjective as in ill-fated/ill-starred
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Example Sentences
The fact that he was celebrating another loss for the star-crossed city of Detroit only enhances the symbolism.
Theirs is one of the most star-crossed bromances of our time.
Amid the chaos and carnage, star-crossed lovers Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and Ygritte (Rose Leslie) meet on the battlefield.
What distinguished Strange Fruit was the subject matter: a star-crossed love affair between a white man and a black woman.
Nadler subverts the potentially familiar plot once again, dispelling with a penstroke the possibilities for star-crossed love.
Many at the baptizing remembered the first meeting of the two star-crossed lovers one autumn day long ago on Blackberry Creek.
T stands for the time by the clock at which the star crossed the meridian.
Star-crossed always, doomed, fated always to be upset by such unforeseen evil chances!
This was but the beginning of the tragedy of this pair of star-crossed lovers.
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On this page you'll find 368 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to star crossed, such as: catastrophic, cursed, damned, disastrous, ill-fated, and ill-omened.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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