Dictionary Definition
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]
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English
Etymology
Adjective
- Not auspicious;
ill-omened;
unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
- Quotations
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- 1595: And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. — Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V,iii.
- Inauspicious love. — Dryden.
- 1788: It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer. — Publius, Federalist, II.
Derived terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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