inauspicious

English

Etymology

in- +‎ auspicious

Adjective

inauspicious (comparative more inauspicious, superlative most inauspicious)

1. Not auspicious; ill-omened

   Synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, unfavorable

   • 1595, Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V,iii.

     And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.

   • (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Inauspicious love.

   • 1788, John Jay, as Publius, The Federalist, II

     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.

Antonyms

• auspicious

Derived terms

• inauspiciously
• inauspiciousness

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)
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• 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)