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inauspicious in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- contrary to your interests or welfare
"adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
adverse inauspicious untoward
- 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
- not auspicious; boding ill
inauspicious unfortunate
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