What is the meaning of inauspicious?

adjective

  • Not auspicious; boding ill.
  • Contrary to your interests or welfare.
    • usage: "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
  • Presaging ill fortune.
    • usage: "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"
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