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# luckless

«luckless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unlucky; having bad fortune, often through no fault of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more luckless, most luckless)

### meaning for a pupil

Unlucky; having bad fortune, often through no fault of one's own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/luckless/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a poor fool or hero who keeps having bad luck and needs help

### examples

- The luckless fox lost his supper to the crow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/luckless/#x1)
- A luckless traveller had no money left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/luckless/#x2)
- Poor luckless boy, he trips on every stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/luckless/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «luckless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/luckless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.