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Synonyms for unlucky

Synonyms for unlucky: luckless and doomed. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for unlucky

Interchangeable with unlucky in this sense

Audited under unlucky's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one unlucky carries in that sense.

lucklessadjective, in the sense "having or bringing misfortune"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name unlucky as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

doomeddoomed is an adjective in the sense "marked by or promising bad fortune"

one of these comes from unlucky's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

having or bringing misfortune

Friday the 13th is an unlucky date.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

luckless

Same sentence, swapped: Friday the 13th is an luckless date.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot unlucky is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

lucky
irrelevant
inappropriate

Where unlucky turns up in the game

unlucky is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where unlucky is the trap

doomedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is fated, in the sense "determined by tragic fate", with unlucky sitting one tile away.
drearyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is drab, in the sense "lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise", and unlucky is on the board beside it.

Play unlucky

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unlucky reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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