inauspicious
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美[,?n?'sp???s]
- adj. 不祥的；不吉的，惡運(yùn)的
英英釋意
- 1. not auspicious; boding ill
- 2. contrary to your interests or welfare;
- "adverse circumstances"
- "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
- 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"