unpropitious
Not looking good
Unpropitious means unfavorable or unlikely to lead to success.
Conditions, circumstances, or timing can be unpropitious: The economic climate was unpropitious for launching a new business.
The word carries a formal, slightly literary tone—inauspicious or unfavorable serve the same purpose in everyday speech.
Harmful or opposed
- disadvantageousCausing harm or hindrance
- unpromisingShowing little potential
- untimelyOccurring too soon
- inopportuneOccurring at unsuitable time
unfortunate · unlucky · discouraging · detrimental · harmful · ill-timed · ill-fated · untoward
Fearful anticipation of harm
- portentousOminously significant
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- menacingConveying threat or danger
threatening · baleful · premonitory · fateful · dark · eerie · haunting · chilling
Dark and dispiriting
- dismalDepressingly dark or dull
- drearyDull and depressing
- desolateBleak and abandoned
- grimHarsh and foreboding
hopeless · stark · somber · pessimistic · despondent · cheerless · joyless · dispiriting
adverse
Harmful or opposed
- disadvantageousCausing harm or hindrance
- unpromisingShowing little potential
- untimelyOccurring too soon
inopportune · unfortunate · unlucky · discouraging · detrimental · harmful · ill-timed · ill-fated · untoward · inconvenient
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
- portentousOminously significant
- ill-omenedPortending misfortune ahead
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
menacing · threatening · baleful · premonitory · fateful · dark · eerie · haunting · chilling · dire
gloomy
Dark and dispiriting
grim · hopeless · stark · somber · pessimistic · despondent · cheerless · joyless · dispiriting · discouraging
unpropitiouspropitious
Favorable for success
favorable · favourable · auspicious · opportune · advantageous
unpropitiouslucky
Favored by chance
fortunate · blessed · golden · prosperous · providential
auspicious, propitious, inauspicious, propitiate, propitiatory, propitiation, auspiciously, propitiously