inauspicious
[in-aw-spish-uh s]
- not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
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Origin of inauspicious
Synonyms
See more synonyms for inauspicious on Thesaurus.comunpropitious, ill-timed, unpromising.
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Examples from the Web for inauspicious
Contemporary Examples
It was an inauspicious beginning to what is now a remarkable career.
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Historical Examples
Why are you thus altered, and what means this inauspicious quick-sightedness and alarm?
ImogenWilliam Godwin
For tears and cries are the inauspicious signs by which children show what they love and hate.
LawsPlato
This was an inauspicious commencement of an active and anxious career.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745Mrs. Thomson
Mildly and not unjustly Roger calls this "an inauspicious question."
A Book About LawyersJohn Cordy Jeaffreson
It was a dashing victory, gallantly won after an inauspicious start.
Bert Wilson on the GridironJ. W. Duffield
inauspicious
- not auspicious; unlucky
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Word Origin and History for inauspicious
adj.
1590s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + auspicious. Related: Inauspiciously; inauspiciousness.
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