Unpropitious
[ʌnprә'piʃәs]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unfavorable, inauspicious, UNPROMISING.
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Definition
adj. not propitious inauspicious.—adj. Unpropi′tiable incapable of being propitiated.—adv. Unpropi′tiously.—n. Unpropi′tiousness.
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Examples
- The next was a very unpropitious morning for a journey--muggy, damp, and drizzly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The time of the year was most unpropitious to health as well as to spirits. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It was some time before he obtained any answer, and the reply, when made, was unpropitious. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Editor: Ryan