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English adjective: inauspicious

1. inauspicious not auspicious; boding ill


Synonymsunfortunate


Similarunpromising


Attributeauspiciousness, propitiousness


Antonymsauspicious

2. inauspicious contrary to your interests or welfare


SamplesAdverse circumstances.
Made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions.


Synonymsadverse, untoward


Similarunfavorable, unfavourable


Antonymsfavorable, favourable

3. inauspicious presaging ill fortune


SamplesIll omens.
Ill predictions.
My words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven.
A dead and ominous silence prevailed.
A by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government.


Synonymsill, ominous


Similarunpropitious


Antonymspropitious









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