inauspicious
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Etymology
From in- + auspicious.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
inauspicious (comparative more inauspicious, superlative most inauspicious)
- Not auspicious; ill-omened
- Synonyms: foreboding, portentous; see also Thesaurus:ominous
- Antonyms: auspicial, auspicious; see also Thesaurus:ominous
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:
- 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.
- 2020 August 12, “Network News: Triple failure of Class 745s on first day of Stansted services”, in Rail, page 17:
- 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).
Derived terms
Translations
boding ill
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References
- “inauspicious”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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