ill-fated

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

ill-fated
    adj 1: marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business
           venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated
           business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky
           prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn:
           {doomed}, {ill-fated}, {ill-omened}, {ill-starred},
           {unlucky}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ill-fated \ill-fated\ adj.
   1. marked by or promising bad fortune; unsuccessful; as, an
      ill-fated business venture.

   Syn: ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky.
        [WordNet 1.5] Ill-favored

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-fated":
      apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark,
      dire, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding,
      gloomy, ill, ill-boding, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious,
      lowering, menacing, of evil portent, ominous, portending,
      portentous, sinister, somber, threatening, unfavorable,
      unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward

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