Inauspicious \In`aus*pi"cious\, a.
Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky;
unfavorable. "Inauspicious stars." --Shak. "Inauspicious
love." --Dryden. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inauspicious
adj 1: not auspicious; boding ill [syn: unfortunate] [ant: auspicious]
2: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse
circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the
most untoward conditions" [syn: adverse, harmful, untoward]
3: presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my
words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"-
P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a
by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the
Government" [syn: ill, ominous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "inauspicious":
apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful,
boding, criminal, dark, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, dreary,
evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless,
funest, gloomy, hapless, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-considered,
ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-timed,
improper, in adverse circumstances, inaccurate, inappropriate,
inconvenient, inexpedient, infelicitous, inferior, inopportune,
intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irrelevant, late, lowering,
luckless, mal a propos, malapropos, malevolent, menacing, mistimed,
of evil portent, off base, ominous, out of line, out of luck,
out of phase, out of time, peccant, planet-struck, portending,
portentous, premature, sad, short of luck, sinful, sinister,
somber, star-crossed, threatening, too late, too soon, unbefitting,
unblessed, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting,
unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unkind, unlucky,
unpleasant, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous,
unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unskillful,
unsuitable, untimely, untoward, vicious, wicked, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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