[ adj ] having or bringing misfortune <adj.all> Friday the 13th is an unlucky date
Luckless \Luck"less\, a. Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. --Dryden. -- {Luck"less*ly}, adv. -- {Lock"less*ness}, n.
They have presented exactly such conditions as the luckless 15-year-old mutual and balanced force reduction negotiations.
The two luckless orphans are in need of a parent when Aunt Sylvie, played by Christine Lahti, returns to her tiny hometown in the Pacific Northwest to care for them.
This didn't help one luckless man, whose Mercedes-Benz and BMW were both stolen from the lot in separate Christmas-season incidents.
The lone exception is the luckless prison inmate, who's been treated for his stab wounds and sent back to jail.