Usually means: Doomed by fate from outset.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word star-crossed:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. star-crossed: Merriam-Webster
  2. star-crossed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. star-crossed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. star-crossed, star-crossed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Star-Crossed, Star-crossed, star-crossed: Wordnik
  6. star-crossed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. star-crossed: Wiktionary
  8. star-crossed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. star-crossed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. star-crossed: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. star-crossed: Dictionary.com
  12. Star-crossed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Star-crossed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. star-crossed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Star-crossed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. Star-crossed: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. star-crossed: FreeDictionary.org
  18. star-crossed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Star-Crossed: Urban Dictionary

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

Similar:
starred, fateful, starward, star-struck, Starry, star-studded, starrified, astripotent, starstudded, stellar, more...

Opposite:
lucky, fortuitous, serendipitous

Phrases:
star-crossed lovers, Still Star-Crossed, more...

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Similar:
starred, fateful, starward, star-struck, Starry, star-studded, starrified, astripotent, starstudded, stellar, more...

Opposite:
lucky, fortuitous, serendipitous

Phrases:
star-crossed lovers, Still Star-Crossed, more...



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