Unglück
Meaning
- (neuter,strong) unhappiness; sorrow
- (neuter,strong) bad luck; misfortune
- (neuter,strong) accident, calamity, catastrophe
Concepts
misfortune
accident
calamity
disaster
bad luck
mishap
misadventure
adversity
unhappiness
misery
evil
catastrophe
mischance
woe
harm
emergency
wreck
infelicity
incident
shipwreck
fate
sorrow
sadness
one danger
one difficulty
fortune
luck
mischief
wickedness
circumstances
reasons
trouble
uprising
bad fortune
extraordinary
unusual
unlucky
obscurity
death
separation from the world
sad circumstances
strange occurrence
unexpected occurrence
unusual occurrence
fatality
undoing
bad omen
danger
disgrace
adulterer
adverse
fatal
unlucky person
wretched
good luck
ill-luck
casus
cataclysm
fatalities
misfortunes
mishaps
ill luck
malfortune
natural resin
tough luck
unluckiness
buskin
hecatomb
natural disaster
tragedy
wretchedness
Frequency
Gender
Neuter
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʊnˌɡlʏk/
Etymology
From Middle High German unglück, unglücke, ungelücke, equivalent to un- + Glück (“luck”). Compare Dutch ongeluk.
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