tough luck

Questions about tough luck

What does tough luck mean?

tough luck means "an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes".

What is another word for tough luck?

Close synonyms include misfortune, bad luck, ill luck. 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 tough luck a common word?

tough luck is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.