Synonyms for Inauspicious
Definition of inauspicious
- adjective
- not auspicious; boding ill
- contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
- 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"
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