inauspicious

English

Adjective

inauspicious (comparative more inauspicious, superlative most inauspicious)

1. Not auspicious; ill-omened; 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

• inauspiciously
• inauspiciousness

Translations

boding ill

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不祥 (cmn) (bùxiáng), 不吉 (cmn) (bùjí)

• German: ungünstig (de)
• Japanese: 不祥 (ja) (ふしょう, fushō), 不吉 (ja) (ふきつ, fukitsu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ugunstig (nb)

  Nynorsk: ugunstig (nn)

• Persian: شوم (fa) (šum)
• Russian: неблагоприятный (ru) (neblagoprijátnyj) , (ominous) зловещий (ru) (zlovéščij)