Meanings
comparative more inauspicate · superlative most inauspicate
- obsoleteinauspicious
And this was the successe of his first invasion, which though it bore an inauspicate face, it proved of a friendly event
1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the ThirdSynonyms: foreboding, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveinauspicious
Origin
- Latininauspicatus
- Englishinauspicate
From Latin inauspicatus; prefix in- (“not”) + auspicatus, past participle auspicari. Equivalent to in- + auspicate.
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