Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ill-starred \Ill"-starred`\, a.
   Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or
   day.

Source : WordNet®

ill-starred
     adj : marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture
           was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business
           venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky
           prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott [syn: {doomed},
            {ill-fated}, {ill-omened}, {unlucky}]