Definition: inauspicious

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

inauspicious
     adj 1: not auspicious; boding ill [syn: unfortunate] [ant: auspicious]
     2: contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse
        circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the
        most untoward conditions" [syn: adverse, harmful, untoward]
     3: presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my
        words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"-
        P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a
        by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the
        Government" [syn: ill, ominous]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Inauspicious \In`aus*pi"cious\, a.
   Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky;
   unfavorable. ``Inauspicious stars.'' --Shak. ``Inauspicious
   love.'' --Dryden. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. --
   In`aus*pi"cious*ness, n.