SkyfireDict

inauspicious   (TTS Sound)

The adj inauspicious has 3 senses

• inauspicious, unfortunate -- (not auspicious; boding ill)


• adverse, inauspicious, untoward -- (contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions")


• ill, inauspicious, ominous -- (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")