Unglück

Meaning

  1. (neuter,strong) unhappiness; sorrow
  2. (neuter,strong) bad luck; misfortune
  3. (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

B2
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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