Definitions for ill-starred

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Spelling: [il-stahrd]
IPA: /ˈɪlˈstɑrd/

Ill-Starred is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 765 anagrams from letters in ill-starred (-adeillrrst).

Definitions for ill-starred

adjective

  1. doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky:
  2. disastrous:

Origin of ill-starred

First recorded in 1595-1605

Examples for ill-starred

The less said about this splendid but ill-starred effort the better.

When I returned from that ill-starred Russian voyage, I flew at once to join you.

She had no clear ideas, no logic from the other ill-starred home.

His career seems to have been ill-starred and unfortunate from the beginning.

One was the ill-starred lady who perished in the Konak in Belgrade.

"My ill-starred novel—my story of Aberdeen Hall," she laughed.

The Corsican expedition was quite as ill-starred as the French.

Pique, very likely, had brought about this ill-starred match with Chatelet.

George Godolphin knew that he alluded to the ill-starred Nick.

Nothing more was said of the affair, nor of the ill-starred Maria Clara.

Word Value for ill-starred
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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