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  • 61adversity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Ill fortune Nouns 1. (difficulty) adversity, affliction; bad, ill, adverse, or hard luck or fortune, Weltschmerz; evil lot; force majeur, frowns of fortune; evil star or genius; ups and downs of life,… …

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  • 62lucrative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. profitable, wellpaying, gainful, moneymaking, productive. See acquisition. Ant., unprofitable. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fruitful, productive, gainful; see profitable . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 63Adversity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Adversity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 adversity adversity evil &c. 619 Sgm: N 1 failure failure &c. 732 Sgm: N 1 bad luck bad luck ill luck evil luck adverse luck hard fortune …

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  • 64adverse — a. 1. Contrary, opposing, counteracting, conflicting, head (as head wind). 2. Hostile, inimical, antagonistic, unpropitious, unfavorable, injurious, harmful. 3. Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous …

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  • 65calamitous — a. Disastrous, unlucky, unfortunate, adverse, untoward, unhappy, unprosperous, hapless, ill fated, ill starred, deplorable, ruinous, miserable, wretched, dreadful, distressful, distressing, baleful, severe, afflictive, sad, grievous …

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  • 66disastrous — a. 1. Calamitous, unfortunate, unlucky, hapless, adverse, ruinous, destructive, untoward, unprosperous, ill fated, ill starred. 2. Foreboding, threatening, gloomy, dismal, portentous, portending disaster …

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  • 67luckless — a. Unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous, unsuccessful, ill fated, ill starred, unpropitious, unhappy …

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  • 68unfortunate — a. 1. Unsuccessful, unprosperous, unlucky, luckless, ill fated, ill starred, hapless. 2. Disastrous, calamitous, unhappy, deplorable. 3. Infelicitous, inappropriate, inopportune, unlucky …

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  • 69unsuccessful — a. 1. Unavailing, ineffectual, abortive, fruitless, bootless, profitless, vain, futile, in vain. 2. Luckless, unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous, ill starred, ill fated, unhappy …

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  • 70hard — I. a. 1. Firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unyielding, rigid. 2. Difficult, embarrassing, perplexing, puzzling, knotty, intricate, understood with difficulty. 3. Laborious, arduous, toilsome, fatiguing, wearying. 4. Unfeeling, unkind,… …

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