0 showing signs that something will not be successful or positive:
1 suggesting that success is not likely:
Its start was inauspicious, with only seventy-three members, and shrouded in controversy.
The choice of the martial administrator could not have been more inauspicious.
It was, to say the least, an inauspicious beginning to an acquaintanceship that would span many decades.
The death of a loved one, normatively, is often a very inauspicious occasion, and yet it is one from which we may not only survive, but thrive.
It was an inauspicious start.
Bridal lamentations never refer to an inauspicious event such as qiangqin, but provide a wealth of information about feminine codes of propriety.
By assessing the impact of recent electoral reforms and institutional change, it underscores the contribution that institutional engineering and electoral reform can make to further democratisation in inauspicious environments.
He saw human beings as being by their very nature malleable, susceptible to education and improvement; inauspicious circumstances alone were the source of evil in man.
