unpropitious
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + propitious
Adjective[edit]
unpropitious (comparative more unpropitious, superlative most unpropitious)
- Not propitious; unfavourable, untimely.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 82:
- […] it was there that he had hoped to have found peace and rest from the past turmoils of life, in that enchanting spot, in which he might have desired to have ended his days, had not Fate, ever unpropitious to him, chased him from it.