inauspicious

comparative more inauspicious · superlative most inauspicious

1. Not auspicious; ill-omened.

   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.

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   And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars.

   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]

   Inauspicious love.

   1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover

   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).

   2020 August 12, “Network News: Triple failure of Class 745s on first day of Stansted services”, in Rail, page 17

   Synonyms: foreboding, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous · Antonyms: auspicial, auspicious, unauspicious, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire