Word.ws English Dictionary

impropitious

/ɪmpɹəˈpɪʃəs/

impropitious adjective: not propitious; unfavourable.

Adjective

impropitious (comparative more impropitious, superlative most impropitious)

  1. (archaic) Not propitious; unfavourable.
    • Dreams were impropitious.1638, Henry Wotton, letter to Mr. John Dinely

Forms of impropitious

comparativemore impropitious
superlativemost impropitious

Origin of impropitious

From im- + propitious.

Questions about impropitious

What does impropitious mean?
Impropitious means not propitious; unfavourable.
What part of speech is impropitious?
Impropitious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce impropitious?
Impropitious is pronounced /ɪmpɹəˈpɪʃəs/.

Words near impropitious in the dictionary

  1. impropering
  2. improperly
  3. improperness
  4. impropers
  5. improperty
  6. impropitious
  7. improportionable
  8. improportionate
  9. impropre
  10. impropriate
  11. impropriated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: impropitious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “impropitious.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/impropitious. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.