- Adversity (Substantives), bad, ill, evil, adverse, etc., fortune, hap, or luck, tough luck, reverse, broken fortunes, falling or going down in the world, hard times.
- Mediocrity (Substantives), the golden mean, aurea mediocritas, moderate circumstances; the middle classes, bourgeoisie.
(Phrase). To feather one's nest.
(Adjectives). Prosperous, fortunate, lucky, well off, well-to-do, solvent 803, thriving, set up, prospering, etc., blooming, palmy, halcyon.
Auspicious, propitious, in a fair way.
(Phrases). Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth; the spoilt child of fortune; enfant gâté; in luck's way.
Fall, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, undoing, disaster, calamity, catastrophe 619; a hard life; evil star, evil genius.
(Phrases). The frowns of fortune; the ups and downs of life; the times being out of joint.
(Verbs). To be ill off; to decay, sink, go under, fall, decline, go down in the world, lose caste; to go hard with.
(Adjectives). Unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, untoward, ill off, badly off, decayed, ill-fated, ill-starred, devoted, bankrupt 808, unprosperous, adverse, untoward.
Disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable, etc.
(Phrases). Down on one's luck; having seen better days; born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; one's star on the wane; down and out.
(Adjectives). Tolerable, fair, middling, mediocre; middle-class, bourgeois.
(Phrase). Medio tutissimus ibis.