Inauspicious - English meaning

adjective

Preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable.

Usage examples:

Taxes are having an adverse effect on production

adjective

Going against something, or causing harm

Usage examples:

Her policies may have adverse effects on the economy.

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Harmful or likely to cause problems

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A chain reaction of adverse events in the financial markets has put lenders under severe pressure.,…

adjective

Involving or creating unfavourable circumstances that reduce the chances of success or effectiveness.

Usage examples:

The new employment scheme is disadvantageous to women

adjective

Causing problems, especially causing something or someone to be less successful than other things or people

Usage examples:

Disadvantageous to email can be disadvantageous to people who have stronger oral skills than writin…

adjective

Causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing.

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A discouraging experience

verb

Cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

Tedious regulations could discourage investors

adjective

Unlucky or certain to experience failure that cannot be avoided

adjective

→  ill-fated

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→  ill-fated

adjective

Unfortunate; inappropriate.

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His illustration is singularly infelicitous

adjective

Not suitable for the occasion

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An infelicitous remark

adjective

Occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time.

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A storm blew up at an inopportune moment

adjective

Happening or done at a time that is not suitable or convenient

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Difficulties seem to crop up at the most inopportune times.

adjective

Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.

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There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead

adjective

Suggesting something unpleasant will happen

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An ominous silence, clouds had gathered ominously.

adjective

Expressing or showing a lack of approval or support.

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Single mothers are often the target of unfavourable press attention

adjective

Not good, and likely to cause problems or prevent success

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Other countries may lure private equity executives offshore if the tax regime in britain became unf…

adjective

Not giving you an advantage or a good chance of success

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Current conditions are very unfavourable for new businesses., we have to be prepared for an unfavou…

adjective

Having or marked by bad fortune; unlucky.

Usage examples:

There'd been an unfortunate accident

noun

A person who suffers bad fortune.

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Those unfortunates whose lives are marred by poverty

adjective

Not happy.

Usage examples:

An unhappy marriage

adjective

Not feeling pleasure or satisfaction

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It was an unhappy time of her life., they were unhappy about their hotel room (= did not like it) a…

adjective

Not giving hope of future success or good results.

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The boy's natural intellect had survived in unpromising circumstances

adjective

(of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable.

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His reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time

adjective

Not likely to be successful, or not showing any signs of success

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It may have seemed an unpropitious time for a general election., she assumed power in distinctly un…

adjective

(of an event or act) happening or done at an unsuitable time.

Usage examples:

Dave's untimely return

adverb

At a time that is unsuitable or premature.

Usage examples:

The moment was very untimely chosen

adjective

(of something bad) happening unexpectedly early or at a time which is not suitable

Usage examples:

A love of fast cars led to his untimely death at the age of 34.

adjective

Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.

Usage examples:

Both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened

adjective

Not expected, not convenient, or not suitable

Usage examples:

I was nervous about what he might do, but nothing untoward happened.