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^[1]:

     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: 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 (zh), 噩运 (zh) (èyùn), 不幸 (zh) (bùxìng), 倒霉 (zh) (dǎoméi), 霉運 (zh), 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
• 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 (burun)
• Latin: res adversae f, fortuna mala f, res mala, adversa n pl
• Luxembourgish: Ongléck n
• Malayalam: നിർഭാഗ്യം (nirbhāgyaṃ)
• Manx: lag-haghyrt m
• Maori: kōtua, kōtuatanga
• Mongolian: азгүйдэл (azgüidel)
• 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
• Swedish: otur (sv) c
• Turkish: kötü şans, kör talih (tr), şanssızlık (tr), uğursuzluk (tr)
• Volapük: mifät (vo)

See also

• hard lines
• hard cheese