inauspicious

Meaning of inauspicious

adjective
  1. not conducive to success; unpromising.
    following this inauspicious start the British, outnumbered, withdrew

Information about inauspicious

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of inauspicious

in-aus-pi-cious

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
  • inauspicious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

inauspicious synonyms

Meaning unfortunate:

unfortunate

Meaning adverse:

adverse, harmful, untoward

Meaning ill:

ill, ominous

Meaning not giving hope of future success or good results:

unpromising

Meaning (of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable:

unpropitious

Meaning likely to lead to an adverse outcome:

unfavourable

Meaning unfortunate; inappropriate:

infelicitous

Meaning not happy:

unhappy

Meaning (of an event or act) happening or done at an unsuitable time:

untimely

Meaning occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time:

inopportune

Meaning involving or creating unfavourable circumstances that reduce the chances of success or effectiveness:

disadvantageous

Meaning causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing:

discouraging

Meaning causing someone to lose determination or confidence; discouraging or dispiriting:

disheartening

Meaning dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening:

gloomy

Meaning (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favourable outcome:

bleak

Meaning of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white:

black

Meaning not appropriate in a particular situation:

bad

Meaning giving the impression that something bad will happen; ominous:

sinistrous

Meaning unlucky, inauspicious, or dangerous:

unchancy

inauspicious antonyms

Meaning showing signs of future success:

promising

Meaning conducive to success; favourable:

auspicious

Words that rhyme with inauspicious

aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious

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