INAUSPICIOUS DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
inauspicious adj 1: not auspicious; boding ill [syn: inauspicious, unfortunate] [ant: auspicious] 2: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions" [syn: adverse, inauspicious, 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, inauspicious, ominous] inauspicious - temnos Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary inauspicious An inauspicious event is one that gives signs that success is unlikely. (FORMAL) The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late. ≠ auspicious ADJ: usu ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary inauspicious ˌɪnɔ:sˈpɪʃəs adj. 1 ill-omened, unpropitious. 2 unlucky. øøinauspiciously adv. inauspiciousness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Inauspicious \In`aus*pi"cious\, a. Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable. ``Inauspicious stars.'' --Shak. ``Inauspicious love.'' --Dryden. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ness, n. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms inauspicious a. Unpropitious, unfavorable, unlucky, unfortunate, untoward, unpromising, ill-omened. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) inauspicious ˌɪnɔ:sˈpɪʃəs adj. unpromising, unlucky, unfortunate, unfavourable, unpropitious, untoward, ill-starred, ominous, ill-omened, ill-fated, portentous, menacing, doomed, sinister, dark, gloomy, cloudy, clouded, black: The middle of a recession is an inauspicious time to set up a business. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 102 Moby Thesaurus words for "inauspicious": 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 |
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