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inauspicious

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in·aus·pi·cious  (nô-spshs)
adj.
Not favorable; not auspicious.
inaus·picious·ly adv.
inaus·picious·ness n.
inauspicious
Adjective
unlucky; suggesting an unfavourable outcome
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Adj.1.inauspicious - not auspicious; boding ill
unfortunate
auspicious - auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign"
2.inauspicious - contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
adverse, untoward
unfavorable, unfavourable - not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments", "unfavorable impression"
3.inauspicious - 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"
ominous, ill
unpropitious - not propitious
Translations
inauspicious [ɪnɔːsˈpɪʃəs] adj → poco propicio, inoportuno
inauspicious [ɪnɔːsˈpɪʃəs] adj → peu propice
inauspicious [ɪnɔːsˈpɪʃəs] adj → Unheil verheißend
inauspicious [ɪnɔːsˈpɪʃəs] adj → poco propizio/a


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Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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.
Federalist Papers Authored by John Jay by Jay, John View in context
He had brought a new copy of The Arabian Nights for Rebecca, wishing to replace the well-worn old one that had been the delight of her girlhood; but meeting her at such an inauspicious time, he had absently carried it away with him.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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