inauspicious

in·aus·pi·cious

adj \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

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Rhymes with INAUSPICIOUS

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