Meaning

1 senses
  1. (idiomatic)Ill-fated by destiny, the fate of the person being “written in the stars”.

    The star-crossed lovers looked into each other's eyes, before dying.

    unsternbedroht, unterm Unglücksstern geboren

    злополу́чныйzlopolúčnyj, злосча́стныйzlosčástnyj

Translations

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Deutsch
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Origin

From star + crossed. Coined by William Shakespeare in 1597 in Romeo and Juliet, see quotat

From star + crossed. Coined by William Shakespeare in 1597 in Romeo and Juliet, see quotations.

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Forms

more star-crossed, most star-crossed
Comparativemore star-crossed Lesson
Superlativemost star-crossed Lesson

regular

Synonyms

26 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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