Words that rhyme with inauspicious

  • ambitious
    adj 1: having a strong desire for success or achievement [ant: ambitionless, unambitious] 2: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" [syn: ambitious, challenging]
  • auspicious
    adj 1: auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign" [ant: inauspicious, unfortunate]
  • avaricious
    adj 1: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
  • capricious
    adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious, freakish] 2: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions" [syn: capricious, impulsive, whimsical]
  • delicious
    adj 1: greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke" [syn: delightful, delicious] 2: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy] n 1: variety of sweet eating apples
  • expeditious
    adj 1: marked by speed and efficiency
  • factitious
    adj 1: not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"
  • fictitious
    adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious] 2: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
  • flagitious
    adj 1: extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations" [syn: flagitious, heinous] 2: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]
  • injudicious
    adj 1: lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"
  • judicious
    adj 1: marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision" [syn: judicious, wise, heady]
  • lubricious
    adj 1: having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious" 2: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious]
  • malicious
    adj 1: having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling [ant: unmalicious]
  • nutritious
    adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
  • officious
    adj 1: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied]
  • pernicious
    adj 1: exceedingly harmful [syn: baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent] 2: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: insidious, pernicious, subtle]
  • propitious
    adj 1: presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success; "propitious omens"; "propitious gales speeded us along"; "a propitious alignment of planets for space exploration" [ant: unpropitious]
  • repetitious
    adj 1: characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement" [syn: repetitive, repetitious] [ant: nonrepetitive]
  • seditious
    adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble- rousing, seditious] 2: in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive]
  • superstitious
    adj 1: showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance; "finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin"
  • surreptitious
    adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious] 2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]
  • suspicious
    adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary] 2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]
  • vicious
    adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious] 3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 4: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious]
  • mauritius
    n 1: a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius [syn: Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius] 2: an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
  • cementitious
    adj 1: like or relevant to or having the properties of cement; "the adhesion of cementitious materials"
  • unsuspicious
    adj 1: not suspicious; "deceiving the unsuspecting public" [syn: unsuspecting, unsuspicious]
  • cysts
  • pumiceous
  • spadiceous
  • aloysius
  • inofficious

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