inauspicious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not promising success; suggesting that the future is unlucky

   The team made an inauspicious start, losing their first three matches.

From in- ('not') + auspicious, from Latin auspicium ('divination by observing birds'), from auspex ('bird-watcher, augur'), from avis ('bird') + specere ('to look at').

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