bad luck

bad luck

English

Noun

bad luck (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
   • 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport‎:

     McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.

Synonyms

• hard luck
• tough luck
• ill luck
• mischance
• misluck
• mishap
• misfortune

Antonyms

• good luck
• good fortune

Translations

misfortune

Arabic: نَحْس‎ (ar) (naḥs), سُوءُ الحَظّ‎ (sūʾu l-ḥaẓẓ) Bulgarian: лош късме́т m (loš kǎsmét), неща́стие (bg) n (neštástie), несполу́ка (bg) f (nespolúka), малша́нс m (malšáns) Catalan: mala sort f Chichewa: tsoka Chinese: Mandarin: 運氣不好／运气不好 (yùnqi bùhǎo), 壞運氣／坏运气 (huài yùnqi), 噩運／噩运 (zh) (èyùn), 不幸 (zh) (bùxìng), 倒霉 (zh) (dǎoméi), 霉運／霉运 (zh) (méiyùn) Czech: smůla (cs) f Danish: uheld (da) n Dutch: pech (nl) m, ongeluk (nl) n Esperanto: malbonŝanco Finnish: huono tuuri French: guignon (fr) m, guigne (fr) f (informal), malchance (fr) f, poisse (fr) f (informal), manque de bol m, pas de bol m, (informal), manque de cul m (vulgar) German: Pech (de) n, Unglück (de) n Greek: Ancient: περικάκησις f (perikákēsis) Hebrew: נחס‎ (he) (nakhs) Hungarian: balszerencse (hu) Hunsrik: Unglick n Icelandic: óhamingja f, ógæfa (is) f Italian: iella (it) f, sfiga (it) f, sfortuna (it) f, malasorte (it) f Japanese: 不運 (ja) (ふうん, fuun) Korean: 불운 (ko) (burun) Latin: res adversae f, fortuna mala f, res mala, adversa n pl Luxembourgish: Ongléck n Malayalam: നിർഭാഗ്യം (niṟbhāgyaṃ) Manx: lag-haghyrt m Maori: kōtua, kōtuatanga Mongolian: азгүйдэл (azgüjdel) Norwegian: uheld n, uflaks m Ojibwe: debizi, maazhise Pennsylvania German: Unglick n Persian: بدشانسی‎ (fa) (badšânsi) Polish: pech (pl) m Portuguese: azar (pt) Quechua: qhincha Romanian: ghinion (ro) n, nenoroc (ro) n Russian: невезе́ние (ru) n (nevezénije), несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje), неуда́ча (ru) f (neudáča) Scottish Gaelic: mì-àdh m Serbo-Croatian: zlostreća f Sicilian: scutra (scn) f, malanova (scn) f Spanish: mala pata (es) f (informal), mala suerte f, mal fario Swahili: nuksi Swedish: otur (sv) c Turkish: kötü şans, kör talih (tr), şanssızlık (tr), uğursuzluk (tr) Volapük: mifät (vo)

See also

• hard lines
• hard cheese