Inauspicious

Definitions: Inauspicious

Inauspicious

Adjective

1. Not auspicious; boding ill.

2. Contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions".

3. 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".

Date "inauspicious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Inauspicious

Synonyms: adverse (adj), harmful (adj), ill (adj), ominous (adj), unfortunate (adj), untoward (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: auspicious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hopelessness	Unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.
Inexpedience	Corrupting; (corrupt; ); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous; (morbific); deadly; (killing); destructive; (destroying); inauspicious.
Untimeliness	Adjective: ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable; unsuited; inexpedient.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inauspicious

English words defined with "inauspicious": Black-letter ♦ ill, Ill-boding, Inauspicate, inauspiciously ♦ ominous ♦ Unauspicious, unpropitiously. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Rhode Island Campaign of 1778: Inauspicious Dawn of Alliance (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This inauspicious victory has been conquered by liberty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Inauspicious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inauspicious" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	35	58,339

Expression using "inauspicious": be inauspicious. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "inauspicious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pafat (hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, infelicitous, luckless, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward), jo i mbarë. (various references)

Arabic		‏منحوس (ill, ill fated, ill-starred, luckless, unlucky), ‏مشؤوم (disastrous, ill-omened, ominous, sinister, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references)

Bulgarian		нещастен (abject, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, lack-all, lorn, poor, sick, unblessed, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woeful, wretched), неблагоприятен (contrary, disadvantageous, dyslogistic, inimical, low, mis-, unfavorable, unfavourable, unsuitable, untoward), злокобен (dire, ill-omened, ominous, portentous, sidereal, sinister), предвещаващ зло. (various references)

Chinese		不祥 (ominous), 不吉利. (various references)

Czech		zlovìstný (baleful, black, fateful, ominous, portentous, sinister, spooky, uncanny, unlucky), nepříznivý (adverse, contrary, inimical, unfavorable, unfavourable), neblahý (baleful, calamitous, dire, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill fated, ill-starred, ominous, sinister, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references)

Farsi		نحس (Infelicitous), نامیمون (Ominous, Sinister, Unblessed, Unblest), نامبارک (Unblest), ناخجسته , شوم (Dire, Ghastly, Grim, Infelicitous, Ominous, Unlucky). (various references)

French		peu propice, de mauvais augure. (various references)

German		unheilverheißend, unheilträchtig, unglücklich (hapless, ill fated, infelicitous, miserable, miserably, sad, unfortunate, unfortunately, unhappily, unhappy, unjoyous, unluckily, unlucky, unrequited, unsuccessful, untoward), ungünstig (adverse, awkward, awkwardly, disadvantageous, expensive, inconvenient, inconveniently, unfavorable, unfavorably, unfavourable, unfavourably, unflattering, unfortunate, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward). (various references)

Greek		δυσοίωνοσ (black, inauspiciousness, ominous, pessimistic, portentous, sinister, sinistrous). (various references)

Hebrew		שאי� ו מבשר טובות. (various references)

Hungarian		kedvezõtlen (disadvantageous, poor, unfavorable, unfavourable), baljóslatú (baleful, bodeful, of evil omen, ominous, portentous, sinister, unlucky). (various references)

Italian		infausto (accursed, baleful, infaust, ominous, ominously, unfavourable), nefasto (fatal, fateful, ill-omened, malign, portentous, sinister), malaugurato (ill fated, ill-starred, unlucky, untoward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不祥 (disgraceful, ill-omened, ominous, scandalous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふしょう (disagreement, disapproval, disgraceful, dissent, ill-omened, incompetent, injury, my humble self, my unworthy self, objection, ominous, refusal, scandalous, unidentified, unknown, wound, your humble servant). (various references)

Korean		불길한 (sinister, unlucky). (various references)

Manx		donney (bad, bad of food, calamitous, ill-advised, unfortunate, very ill, woeful). (various references)

Pig Latin		inauspiciousay

Portuguese		investimento cerimonioso, pouco auspicioso. (various references)

Romanian		neospitalier, de rãu augur (ill fated, luckless, ominous, portentous). (various references)

Russian		неблагоприятный (adverse, baffling, contrary, disadvantageous, inimical, none to bright, none too bright, sinister, unauspicious, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, unpropitious, untoward, worst case, worst-case), зловещий (bodeful, direful, grim, ill-omened, ominous, sinister). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zlokoban (bodeful, dark, disastrous, ill-omened, sinister), nesrećan (calamitous, down in the mouth, fortuneless, graceless, infelicitous, miserable, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky). (various references)

Spanish		poco propicio, no favorable (unfavorable, unfavourable), en condiciones desfavorables. (various references)

Swedish		olycksbådande (croaky, ominous, portentous, sinister). (various references)

Turkish		uğursuz (accursed, accurst, baleful, black, bloody, demon, dire, evil, fateful, hoodoo, ill fated, ill-omened, ominous, portentous, sinister, unlucky, untoward), tâlihsiz (cursed, disastrous, down on one's luck, evil, grief-stricken, hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, infelicitous, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky), meymenetsiz (sinister, unlucky), meşum (ill-omened, ominous), şanssız (distressed, down on one's luck, evil, fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, luckless, out of luck, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward). (various references)

Ukranian		несприятливий (adverse, bad, baffling, contrary, cross, impervious, non-contributory, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfriendly, untoward), зловісний (augural, bodeful, dire, disastrous, fateful, grim, ominous, oracular, oraculous, portentous, sinister, sinistrous, unlucky). (various references)

Vietnamese		rủi ro (hapless, luckless, unfortunate), mang điềm xấu; gở; bất hạnh, không may (baleful, hapless, luckless, unchancy, unfortunate, unlucky, untoward). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	infelices, infelix, sinistra, sinistram, sinistris, sinistro, sinistrum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inauspicious": inauspiciously, inauspiciousness, inauspiciousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inauspicious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inauspicios, inauspicous, inauspiscious, insuspicious, invauspicious, unauspicious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "inauspicious" (pronounced i'nou'spi"shus)
6	-s p i" sh u s	auspicious, suspicious.
5	-p i" sh u s	propitious.
4	-i" sh u s	ambitious, capricious, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, injudicious, judicious, malicious, nutritious, pernicious, repetitious, seditious, superstitious, surreptitious, vicious.
3	-sh u s	anxious, atrocious, audacious, capacious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, efficacious, facetious, fallacious, ferocious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, infectious, loquacious, luscious, nauseous, noxious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, salacious, sebaceous, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: auspicious.
	-3 letters: suspicion.
	-4 letters: piscinas, sinopias, spacious.
	-5 letters: acinous, caisson, casinos, cassino, cousins, isospin, passion, piscina, sanious, sinopia, sinuous, spinous, suasion.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: inauspiciously.
	+4 letters: inauspiciousness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.