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}]