inauspicious

  • 11inauspicious — adjective Date: 1592 not auspicious < an inauspicious start > • inauspiciously adverb • inauspiciousness noun …

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  • 12inauspicious — adj. Inauspicious is used with these nouns: ↑beginning …

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  • 13inauspicious — in|aus|pi|cious [ˌıno:ˈspıʃəs US ˌıno: ] adj formal seeming to show that success in the future is unlikely ≠ ↑auspicious ▪ an inauspicious start &GT;inauspiciously adv …

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  • 14inauspicious — adjective formal seeming to show that future success is unlikely: an inauspicious start to the journey inauspiciously adverb …

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  • 15inauspicious — adjective after an inauspicious start, the Giants ended the season in first place Syn: unpromising, unpropitious, unfavorable, unfortunate, infelicitous, unlucky, ill omened, ominous; discouraging, disheartening, bleak Ant: promising …

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  • 16inauspicious — inauspiciously, adv. inauspiciousness, n. /in aw spish euhs/, adj. not auspicious; boding ill; ill omened; unfavorable. [1585 95; IN 3 + AUSPICIOUS] Syn. unpropitious, ill timed, unpromising. * * * …

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  • 17inauspicious — adjective Not auspicious; ill omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable. Ant: auspicious …

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  • 18inauspicious — Synonyms and related words: apocalyptic, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, criminal, dark, depressed, dire, donsie, doomful, dreary, evil, evil starred, fatal, fateful, foreboding, fortuneless, funest, gloomy, hapless, ill …

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  • 19inauspicious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unpropitious, ill omened, unfavorable, unlucky. See badness.Ant., auspicious, promising. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, unlucky, unpropitious, ill omened; see ominous , unfavorable 2 . III&#8230; …

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  • 20inauspicious — in·aus·pi·cious || ‚ɪnɔː spɪʃəs adj. unfavorable, unlucky …

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