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inauspicious

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inauspicious in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. contrary to your interests or welfare
    "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
    adverse  inauspicious  untoward 
  2. 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"
    ill  inauspicious  ominous 
  3. not auspicious; boding ill
    inauspicious  unfortunate 
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