inauspiciously
With foreboding portents present
In an inauspicious manner—under unfavorable circumstances or with bad omens for the future.
Something that begins inauspiciously starts in a way that suggests trouble ahead: The meeting began inauspiciously when the projector failed.
Their relationship started inauspiciously with a fender bender in the parking lot.
Expressing bad luck
- unfavorablyIn a critical manner
- unpromisinglyIn an unfavorable manner
- haplesslyWithout any fortune
- adverselyIn harmful fashion
disastrously · jinxed · cursed · doomed · star-crossed · lucklessly · badly · poorly
Ominously significant
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
ill-omened · baleful · premonitory · fateful · dire · dark · shadowy · omen
In a bleak way
- bleaklyIn hopeless manner
- grimlyIn a bleak manner
- drearilyIn a bleak manner
- somberlyIn a sad, serious manner
darkly · cheerlessly · joylessly · depressingly · desolately · mournfully · pessimistically · dourly
unfortunately
Expressing bad luck
- unfavorablyIn a critical manner
- unpromisinglyIn an unfavorable manner
- haplesslyWithout any fortune
adversely · disastrously · jinxed · cursed · doomed · star-crossed · lucklessly · badly · poorly · inopportunely
portentous
Ominously significant
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
- threateningExpressing intent to harm
sinister · ill-omened · baleful · premonitory · fateful · dire · dark · shadowy · omen · portent
dismally
In a bleak way
somberly · darkly · cheerlessly · joylessly · depressingly · desolately · mournfully · pessimistically · dourly · forbiddingly
inauspiciouslyauspiciously
In favorable circumstances
propitiously · promisingly · favorably · fortunately · luckily