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Definitions for inauspicious
ˌɪn ɔˈspɪʃ əsin·aus·pi·cious

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inauspicious, unfortunateadjective

    not auspicious; boding ill

  2. adverse, inauspicious, untowardadjective

    contrary to your interests or welfare

    "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"

  3. ill, inauspicious, ominousadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. inauspiciousadjective

    Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inauspiciousadjective

    Ill-omened; unlucky; unfortunate.

    Etymology: in and auspicious.

    Oh here
    I will set up my everlasting rest;
    And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
    From this world-wearied flesh. William Shakespeare, Rom. and Juliet.

    Though heaven's inauspicious eye
    Lay black on love's nativity,
    Her eye a strong appeal can give;
    Beauty, smiles, and love shall live. Richard Crashaw.

    The stars feel not the diseases their inauspicious influence produces. Boyle.

    With inauspicious love a wretched swain
    Pursu'd the fairest nymph of all the plain;
    She plung'd him hopeless in a deep despair. Dryden.

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  1. inauspicious

    Inauspicious refers to something that is not conducive to success or prosperity; suggesting that future success is unlikely. It can describe an event, circumstance, or sign that is considered unlucky or unfavorable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inauspiciousadjective

    not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Inauspicious

    in-aw-spish′us, adj. not auspicious: ill-omened: unlucky.—adv. Inauspic′iously.—n. Inauspic′iousness.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inauspicious in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inauspicious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of inauspicious in a Sentence

  1. George Washington:

    Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  2. Mustafa Amin:

    There was an important reason why we decided to go through with our wedding which is that we had equipped and furnished our apartment completely, and perhaps it could have been inauspicious to postpone the celebration since we don't know when the crisis will end.

  3. Connor Campbell:

    Markets kicked off June in an inauspicious style this morning, china set the tone...the country's continually limp manufacturing...an unwanted reminder of the global weaknesses circling the market like vultures.

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