inauspicious

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/

Definition of inauspicious

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not auspicious; ill-omened.
    “And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.”
    “Inauspicious love.”
    “1788, John Jay, as Publius, The Federalist, 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.”
    “Class 745/1s suffered an inauspicious entry into traffic on the Stansted Express route on July 28, when the two units supplied (745103/106) both failed, as did a train sent to cover them (745108).”

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Etymology

From in- + auspicious.

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