inauspicious

English

Etymology

in- +‎ auspicious

Adjective

inauspicious (comparative more inauspicious, superlative most inauspicious)

Not auspicious; ill-omened
Synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, unfavorable
- 1595: And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. — Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V,iii.
- Inauspicious love. — Dryden.
- 1788: It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer. — Publius, Federalist, II.

Antonyms

auspicious

Derived terms

Translations

boding ill

Bulgarian: злокобен (bg) (zlokoben), неблагоприятен (bg) (neblagoprijaten)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不祥 (zh) (bùxiáng), 不吉 (bùjí)
Czech: neblahý m, zlověstný m, nepříznivý m
Georgian: არახელსაყრელი (araxelsaq̇reli)
German: ungünstig (de)
Greek: δυσοίωνος (el) m (dysoíonos)

Japanese: 不祥 (ja) (ふしょう, fushō), 不吉 (ja) (ふきつ, fukitsu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ugunstig

Nynorsk: ugunstig
Persian: شوم‎ (fa) (šum)
Russian: неблагоприя́тный (ru) (neblagoprijátnyj), (ominous) злове́щий (ru) (zlovéščij)

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