inauspiciousadj.
/ɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/ Not auspicious, not of good omen; of unfavourable presage, foreboding evil; ill-omened, unlucky, unfortunate.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > inauspicious
perilousc1390
unlucky1519
unchancy1533
unhappy1533
infortunate1548
sinistrous?c1550
luckless1584
dismal1588
ominous1589
fatal1590
bad-bodinga1592
disastrous1598
inauspicious1599
black1604
naught1620
inauspicate1632
infaustous1656
infaust1658
ill-omened1685
black boding1743
wanchancy1768
oracular1820
inominous1832
widdershins1926
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > lack of promise > [adjective] > inauspicious
traversanta1500
ominous1589
inauspicious1599
unpropitious1613
unauspiciousa1616
obscene1656
traversary1851
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [adjective] > of evil omen
portentousc1487
shrewd1577
sinister1579
luckless1584
fatal1590
portentive1594
inauspicious1599
misboding1607
mal-ominous1612
ill-bodinga1616
unauspiciousa1616
portentful1633
ill-aboding1635
ill-omened1685
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 111 O here Will I..shake the yoke of inauspicious starres, From this world wearied flesh. View more context for this quotation
1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle v. sig. E5 On that trees toppe an inauspicious Crow Foretold some ill to happen.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B It was..an unthrifty, and inauspicious War.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. i. 192 I begin this inauspicious Work, which my ill Stars and you have assign'd me.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xxiv. 695 The appearances of the victims threatened the most inauspicious events.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. ii. 55 Many inauspicious rumours were bruited among the people.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. App. ii. 310 A tardy and inauspicious season.
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