inauspicious meaning and definition

INAUSPICIOUS adjective

Definition of inauspicious (adjective)

1. not auspicious; boding ill
   • synonyms: unfortunate
   • antonym: auspicious
2. contrary to your interests or welfare
   • "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
   • synonyms: adverse, untoward
3. presaging ill fortune
   • "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
   • synonyms: ill, ominous