not auspicious; boding ill

[ Syn: unfortunate ]

contrary to your interests or welfare; adverse circumstances; made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions

[ Syn: adverse , untoward ]

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 ]