inauspicious

in·aus·pi·cious

adjective \ˌi-ˌnȯ-ˈspi-shəs\

Definition of INAUSPICIOUS

: not auspicious <an inauspicious start>

— in·aus·pi·cious·ly adverb

— in·aus·pi·cious·ness noun

Examples of INAUSPICIOUS

1. Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the company eventually became very profitable.
2. <this many problems so early in the project is a most inauspicious sign>

First Known Use of INAUSPICIOUS

1592

Related to INAUSPICIOUS

Synonyms

baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, ominous, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening

Antonyms

unthreatening

Related Words

black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched; discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious; ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky; evil, malign, malignant

Near Antonyms

auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous

Rhymes with INAUSPICIOUS

adscititious, adventitious, avaricious, cementitious, expeditious, injudicious, meretricious, Red Delicious, repetitious, subreptitious, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious