jinxed

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,307 of 15,258leans spoken

Jinxed means under some supposed curse that brings misfortune again and again. The team is jinxed, a jinxed car, feel jinxed.

It is superstition said lightly, and the joke is usually on the speaker. Saying a run of luck aloud is itself supposed to jinx it, which is why commentators reach for wood to touch.

Definitions of jinxed

1adjectivejinxedUnder some supposed curse that brings misfortune again and again.B2+
“Everything went wrong on that trip; I think we were jinxed from the start.”

jinxed is a state.

Where it comes from

jinx comes from jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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jinxed

adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,307 of 15,258leans spoken

Jinxed means under some supposed curse that brings misfortune again and again. The team is jinxed, a jinxed car, feel jinxed.

It is superstition said lightly, and the joke is usually on the speaker. Saying a run of luck aloud is itself supposed to jinx it, which is why commentators reach for wood to touch.

Definitions of jinxed

1adjectivejinxedUnder some supposed curse that brings misfortune again and again.B2+
“Everything went wrong on that trip; I think we were jinxed from the start.”

jinxed is a state.

Where it comes from

jinx comes from jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA