• (British) IPA: /ˌʌn.tʊˈwɔːd/
• (America) IPA: /ʌnˈtɔɹd/, /ˌʌn.təˈwɔɹd/

untoward

1. Unfavourable, adverse, or disadvantageous.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred […]

2. Unruly, troublesome; not easily guided.
3. Unseemly, improper.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, pages 2–3 ↗:

     She could hardly have made a more untoward choice.

• (unfavorable, adverse) adverse, disadvantageous, inconvenient, unfavorable, unfortunate
• (unruly, troublesome) difficult, fractious, stubborn, troublesome, uncontrollable, unruly
• (unseemly, improper) immodest, improper, unseemly

• French: désavantageux, nocif, défavorable
• German: ungünstig, schädlich, unvorteilhaft
• Italian: avverso
• Spanish: desfavorable, adverso, desventajoso

• French: irrégulierennuyeux
• German: problematisch, schwierig, ärgerlich
• Spanish: problemático

• French: inopportundéplacé
• German: ungünstig, unangebracht
• Spanish: impropio