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luckless

/ˈlʌkləs/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈlʌkləs/
luckless
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2 syllables
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Clear final sound

luc - kless -> luckless

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ကံမွသော။ ကံဆိုးသော။

Full entry

luck / lʌk / n [U]

၁။ ကံ။ ကံကောင်းခြင်း။
I could hardly believe my luck when I won. ❍ With (any/a bit of) luck we’ll be home before dark. ❍ I always carry one for luck. ❍ They’re a good team and we wish them luck in the final. ❍ I had the luck to find him at home. ❍ What a stroke of luck finding you here! ❍ Any luck with (ie Did you manage to get) the job? ❍ Our luck finally ran out (ie ended).
၂။ ကံ။
have good/bad/poor luck.
❏ as luck would have it [IDM ] ကံကောင်းချင်တော့။ ကံအားလျော်စွာ။
❏ bad, hard, etc luck (on sb) [IDM ] (နှစ်သိမ့်သည့် သဘောဖြင့်) ကံတရားပေါ့။ Bad luck, Helen, you played very well. ❍ It’s rotten luck on those who were beaten in the first round of the competition.
❏ be down on one’s luck [IDM ] (infml ) ဆက်တိုက် ကံဆိုးနေသည်။ ကံဆိုးမသွားရာ မိုးလိုက်လို့ ရွာသည်။
❏ be in/out of luck [IDM ] ကံကောင်း/ကံဆိုးသည်။ You’re in luck—there’s one ticket left.
❏ the best of/good luck (to sb)/(with sth) [IDM ] အောင်မြင်စေကြောင်း ဆုတောင်း၊ ဆန္ဒပြုသည်။ The best of luck to both of you! ❍ Good luck with your exams!
❏ just one’s luck [IDM ] ကံပေါ့လေ။ It was just my luck to go to Wimbledon the day it rained.
❏ one’s luck is in [IDM ] ကံကောင်းသည်။ ကံထသည်။
❏ luckless adj ကံမွဲသော။ ကံဆိုးသော။ the luckless owner of the stolen van.
❏ the luck of the draw [IDM ] ကံစီမံရာ။ ကံတရားအတိုင်း။
❏ no such luck [IDM ] အဲဒီလောက် ကံမကောင်းပါဘူး။ ‘Did you win?’ ‘No such luck, I’m afraid. ’

More examples
  • John never had much luck with girls.
  • [wish someone luck (in/with something)] : We’d all like to wish you luck in your new job.
  • There was an element of luck in the last goal.
  • [good/bad luck] : He’s had nothing but bad luck since moving to New York.
  • [sheer/pure luck] : It was sheer luck that we found the house.
  • [bring luck] : It’s a custom that is believed to bring good luck.
  • [it’s bad luck] : Many people believe it’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.
  • [your luck runs out] : Their luck is bound to run out sometime.
  • [your luck changes] : Perhaps your luck will change and you’ll meet someone really nice.
  • [your luck holds/lasts] : My luck held and I found a petrol station just in time.
Synonyms
fortune, chance, fate, destiny, providence, accident, coincidence, Moirai, advantage, be found, be one's fate, become a fact, become known, become of, big break, blessing, blunder on, blunder upon, break, brush against, bump into, chance on, chance upon, come after, come into being, come into existence, come to pass, come up against, coming after, congratulate, crop up, cupped, cupping, dig up, digging up, divine will, downs, dug up, fall in with, fall to one's lot, fall upon, fifty-fifty, fluke, fortuity, fortunateness, give a big cigar, give bouquet, give regards, godsend, gold star, good fortune, good luck, hand it to, hand to, handwriting on wall, hap, happen, happenstance, happiness, hazard, health, hear it for, hit upon, in the cards, inescapableness, karma, kismet, light upon, luckiness, lucky break, make a meet, meet, meet face to face, meet up with, meet with, occasion, occurrence, opportunity, pat on back, predestinate, predestine, present itself, profit, prosperity, rejoice with, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run of luck, run up against, serendipity, smile, smoking, streak of luck, stroke, stroke of luck, stub toe on, stumble, stumble on, stumble upon, stumbling upon, success, take effect, take place, taking place, toss-up, touch shoulders, triumph, unforeseen event, victory, weal, wealth, what goes, win, windfall, wish happy returns, wish joy to, wish one well
Antonyms
bad fortune, bad luck, disadvantage, failure, forfeit, loss, misfortune, poverty, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
Cross references
fortunechancefatedestinyprovidenceaccidentcoincidenceMoiraiadvantagebe foundbe one's fatebecome a factbecome knownbecome ofbig breakblessingblunder onblunder uponbreakbrush againstbump intochance onchance uponcome aftercome into beingcome into existencecome to passcome up against
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