What does ill-fated mean?

ill-fated means "marked by or promising bad fortune".

How many syllables are in ill-fated?

ill-fated has 3 syllables and divides as ill--fa-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ill-fated?

Close synonyms include doomed, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ill-fated a common word?

ill-fated is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Ill-fated — meaning, 4 synonyms and examples

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
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”
Synonymsdoomed ill-omened ill-starred unlucky
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