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Definition of Ill-starred
1. Adjective. Marked by or promising bad fortune. "The unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"
Definition of Ill-starred
1. Adjective. doomed to a bad fate; hapless ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-starred
Literary usage of Ill-starred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century (1902)
"Tell me, the ill-starred contractor, might well con- Mr. Conductor—oh, do tell
me—are we now duce to the gaiety of nations. ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... ill-starred host impend ! " O Turnus, what a reckoning thou shalt pay " To me
in arms! O Tiber, in thy wave "What helms and shields and mighty soldiers ..."
3. A Cycle of Cathay: Or, China, South and North. With Personal Reminiscences by William Alexander Parsons Martin (1896)
"... improvements—ill-starred professors—An eccentric German THE founding of a
state is a commonplace event, but not if the scene be the banks of the Congo. ..."
4. The St. Lawrence River: Historical, Legendary, Picturesque by George Waldo Browne (1905)
"... Patriot War"—ill-starred Adventures—the Fenian Insurrection. THE number of
passengers who pass up the St. Lawrence at this section is small compared to ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"... we not wish that one of them, even if it were he, had died before that
ill-starred marriage ? But chiefly for him we grieve ; for a woman of her age, ..."
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