inauspicious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/
inauspicious
- Not auspicious; ill-omened
- Synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky, unfavorable
- 1595, Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V,iii.
- And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.
- Inauspicious love.
- 1788, John Jay, as Publius#Other uses, Federalist Papers, II
- It is not to be wondered at that a government instituted in times so inauspicious, should on experiment be found greatly deficient and inadequate to the purpose it was intended to answer.
- German: ungünstig
- Russian: неблагоприя́тный
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