ill-starred

adjective

some people have lost everything because they invested in that ill-starred venture:

ill-fated, doomed, blighted, ill-omened, foredoomed, infelicitous;

unlucky, unfortunate, hapless, luckless, bedevilled, damned;

inauspicious, unpropitious, unpromising, ominous;

informal jinxed;

literary star-crossed.

▷antonyms destined for success; blessed.

choose the right word	ill-starred, unfortunate, unlucky, hapless
See unfortunate.

ill-starred Oxford Dictionary of English