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  • 111ugly — adj 1. ill favored, bad looking, Inf. not much to look at, Inf. short on looks, Inf. not much for looks, Sl. hard or rough on the eyes; homely, plain, plain featured, plain looking; unattractive, unlovely, unpretty, unhandsome, unbeautiful,… …

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  • 112unfavorable — adj 1. contrary, adverse, antagonistic, hostile, opposing, opposed; antithetical, counter, converse, contradictory; inimical, negatory, discordant, counteracting, conflicting, contrasting. 2. unpropitious, inauspicious, unlucky, unpromising,… …

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  • 113unfortunate — adj 1. unlucky, luckless, out of luck, down on one s luck, hapless, Inf. jinxed, born undei an evil star, cursed; unsuccessful, unprosperous, fortuneless, poor, wretched, unblessed, hopeless; unhappy, woebegone, pathetic, forlorn, pitiable,… …

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  • 114unlucky — adj 1. luckless, out of luck, down on one s luck, hapless, unfortunate, Scot. donsie, Scot. warchancy, Inf. jinxed, cursed; born under an evil star, born under a bad sign, ill fated, ill starred, star crossed, ill omened, doomed; unsuccessful,… …

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  • 115Macbeth — This article is about Shakespeare s play. For other uses, see Macbeth (disambiguation). This is a poster for a c. 1884 American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene. Depicted, counter clockwise from top left, are: Macbeth and Banquo… …

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  • 116ominous — I adjective adverse, alarming, augurial, auspicial, baleful, bodeful, dangerous, dark, depressing, dire, direful, disastrous, dismaying, dispiriting, disquieting, disturbing, divinatory, fatidic, fatidical, fear inspiring, fearful, forbidding,… …

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  • 117unhappy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unlucky, unfortunate; sad, sorrowful, wretched, miserable, dolorous, despondent, disconsolate, inconsolable, gloomy, joyless; inappropriate, dismal; calamitous, disastrous, catastrophic. See… …

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  • 118star-crossed — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. doomed, unfortunate, unlucky, ill destined, ill fated, damned, cursed, condemned. ANT.: fortunate, lucky, blessed II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Involving or undergoing chance misfortune: hapless, ill fated,… …

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  • 119unlucky — adjective 1) he was unlucky not to score Syn: unfortunate, luckless, out of luck, jinxed, hapless, ill fated, ill starred, unhappy; informal down on one s luck; literary star crossed Ant: fortunate 2) an unlucky number …

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  • 120dire — adj 1. dreadful, terrible, grievous, grim, baleful, dark; terrifying, frightful, dread, terrific, appalling; alarming, distressing, harrowing, rending; redoubtable, fearsome, formidable, awful; horrible, horrid, horrendous, monstrous, atrocious;… …

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