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121dejection — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sadness Nouns 1. dejection, dejectedness, depression; lowness or depression of spirits; weight or damp on the spirits; low, bad, drooping, or depressed spirits; sinking heart, heaviness of heart;… …
122deterioration — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Growing worse Nouns 1. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb (see decrease); decline, declension; relapse, backsliding (see regression); recession; rust belt. 2. (moral deterioration) degeneracy,… …
123unfortunate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unlucky, hapless, ill fated, ill starred, star crossed, luckless, unsuccessful, abortive, disastrous, ruinous; short or out of luck, SOL, behind the eight ball, jinxed, hexed (all sl.). See… …
124unlucky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unfortunate, ill starred, ill omened, hopeless, disastrous; regrettable. See adversity, badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unfortunate] Syn. luckless, unhappy, afflicted; see unfortunate 2 . 2.… …
125luckless — adj 1. unlucky, unfortunate, fortuneless, unblessed, hapless, down on one s luck, out of luck, unsuccessful, unprosperous, having a streak or run of bad luck; unhappy, woebegone, woeful, forlorn, miserable, wretched, pitiful, pitiable, sorry. 2.… …
126forlorn — adj 1. miserable, wretched, abject, pitiful, pitiable, piteous, pathetic, pathetical, woebegone, woeful, Archaic. woesome, Obs. baleful; desolate, dreary, Literary. drear, dismal, gloomy, lugubrious, funereal; depressed, dispirited, dejected,… …
127hapless — adjective the hapless victims of exploitation Syn: unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, ill starred, ill fated, jinxed, cursed, doomed; unhappy, forlorn, wretched, miserable, woebegone; informal down on one s luck; literary star crossed… …
128luckless — adjective his luckless father died penniless and alone Syn: unlucky, unfortunate, unsuccessful, hapless, out of luck, cursed, jinxed, doomed, ill fated; informal down on one s luck, losingest; literary star crossed Ant: lucky …
