inauspicious
/ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/
inauspicious adjective: not auspicious; ill-omened.
Adjective
inauspicious (comparative more inauspicious, superlative most inauspicious)
- Not auspicious; ill-omened.
- 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...
- Inauspicious love.1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- Synonyms:
- foreboding, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal
- Antonyms:
- auspicial, auspicious, unauspicious, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine
inauspicious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
inauspicious in Hindi
- inauspicious
- बद bad, कूर kūr
- inauspicious, harmful, baneful
- खर khar
inauspicious in Tamil
- தீயதான, மங்கலமற்ற
inauspicious in Urdu
- inauspicious
- منحوس manhūs, بد bad
inauspicious in Bengali
- অশুভ, অমঙ্গলজনক, প্রতিকূল
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- inauspicious in Telugu
- ప్రతికూలము pratikūlamu
- inauspicious in Malayalam
- അമംഗളമായ, അശ്രീകരമായ, അകാല്യ, അശുഭ
- inauspicious in Sanskrit
- अशुभ aśubha
- inauspicious in Persian
- شوم šum
Synonyms of inauspicious
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Antonyms
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Forms of inauspicious
| comparative | more inauspicious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most inauspicious |
Origin of inauspicious
From in- + auspicious.
Words formed from inauspicious
Questions about inauspicious
- What does inauspicious mean?
- Inauspicious means not auspicious; ill-omened.
- What is inauspicious in Hindi?
- Inauspicious in Hindi is बद (bad), कूर (kūr), खर (khar). See Inauspicious meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inauspicious?
- Inauspicious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce inauspicious?
- Inauspicious is pronounced /ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs/.
Words near inauspicious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: inauspicious (page history and authors); कूर (Hindi) (page history and authors); inauspicious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بد (Urdu) (page history and authors); Inauspicious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రతికూలము (Telugu) (page history and authors); inauspicious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.
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