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English Dictionary: inauspicious by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inauspicious
adj
  1. not auspicious; boding ill [syn: inauspicious, unfortunate]
    Antonym(s): auspicious
  2. contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
    Synonym(s): adverse, inauspicious, 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"
    Synonym(s): ill, inauspicious, ominous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inauspicious \In`aus*pi"cious\, a.
      Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky;
      unfavorable. [bd]Inauspicious stars.[b8] --Shak.
      [bd]Inauspicious love.[b8] --Dryden. -- {In`aus*pi"cious*ly},
      adv. -- {In`aus*pi"cious*ness}, n.
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