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UNPROPITIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unpropitious mean?
• UNPROPITIOUS (adjective)
The adjective UNPROPITIOUS has 1 sense:
1. not propitious
Familiarity information: UNPROPITIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not propitious
Similar:
ill; inauspicious; ominous (presaging ill fortune)
thunderous (extremely ominous)
Also:
unfavorable; unfavourable ((of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose)
Attribute:
auspiciousness; propitiousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)
Antonym:
propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)
Derivation:
unpropitiousness (the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result)
Context examples
She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features—so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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