inauspicious
[in-aw-spish-uhs]
adjective
not auspicious; boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
Origin of inauspicious
Synonyms for inauspicious
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Related Words for inauspicious
unfortunate, bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unlucky, unpropitious, untimely, untowardExamples from the Web for inauspicious
Contemporary Examples of inauspicious
It was an inauspicious beginning to what is now a remarkable career.
‘The Americans’: Noah Emmerich on Playing Stan Beeman, ‘Jane Got a Gun,’ and MoreJason Lynch
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Historical Examples of inauspicious
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
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