inauspiciousness
Quality of ill-fortune
The quality of seeming to predict bad outcomes or unfavorable circumstances.
Inauspiciousness suggests ill omens or unpromising conditions: The inauspiciousness of the timing couldn't be ignored—they'd chosen Friday the thirteenth to launch.
The word is formal and somewhat cumbersome; most speakers would choose a simpler construction like "bad sign" or "unlucky."
Prone to misfortune
- ill-fatedDestined to fail
- ill-starredFated to fail
- haplessLacking good fortune
- cursedUnder a malevolent spell
jinxed · doomed · hexed · accursed · star-crossed · snakebitten · unfortunate · luckless
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- signMark conveying information
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
warning · presage · foreshadowing · prognostication · divination · oracle · prophecy · soothsaying
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
misgiving · anxiety · menace · gloom · doom · chill · shadow · disquiet
Expecting unfavorable outcomes
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- fatalismDoctrine of inevitable outcomes
gloominess · defeatism · discouragement · dismalness · darkness · negativity · bad luck · misery
unlucky
Prone to misfortune
- ill-fatedDestined to fail
- ill-starredFated to fail
- haplessLacking good fortune
cursed · jinxed · doomed · hexed · accursed · star-crossed · snakebitten · unfortunate · luckless · adverse
portent
Sign of future calamity
premonition · warning · presage · foreshadowing · prognostication · divination · oracle · prophecy · soothsaying · bad sign
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- uneaseMild persistent worry
premonition · misgiving · anxiety · menace · gloom · doom · chill · shadow · disquiet · presentiment
pessimism
Expecting unfavorable outcomes
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
fatalism · gloominess · defeatism · discouragement · dismalness · darkness · negativity · bad luck · misery · woe
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State of favorable signs
propitiousness · favorableness · fortunateness · good omen · blessedness
inauspiciousnessfavorableness
Quality of being advantageous
promise · hopefulness · opportuneness · advantageousness · favorable conditions
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