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Adjective inauspicious has 3 senses
- inauspicious, unfortunate - not auspicious; boding ill
Antonyms: auspicious, bright, promising, favorable, golden, fortunate, hopeful, rosy
- adverse, harmful, inauspicious, untoward - contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
Antonyms: favorable, favourable (indirect, via unfavorable)
- ill, inauspicious, ominous - 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"
Antonym: propitious (indirect, via unpropitious)
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