Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Unfavorable; inauspicious: arrived at an unpropitious moment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not propitious; not favorable; inauspicious.
Wiktionary
- adj. not propitious; unfavourable, untimely
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not propitious
Etymologies
- From un- + propitious (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the wake of the near collapse of the euro in 2011, many economists considered 2012 an unpropitious year to launch Africa's single currency.”
The Guardian: Look away, Simon Cowell and John Humphrys. 2012 won't be your year | David Mitchell
“In any case, the tainted election and the murderous suppression of protest that followed made an unpropitious setting for the passage from a greeting on the air to a toe in the water of negotiations.”
The Huffington Post: David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran
“This would seem like unpropitious territory for a candidate who favours eliminating the minimum wage, privatising social security on which the elderly rely, and paring government down to its bare essentials.”
The Guardian: Tea Party supporters want to 'take their country back'. To where?
“In Democracy in America, Tocqueville seems nothing more than an impressionable amanuensis — and perhaps a too-willing mouthpiece for the moneyed classes of New York and Boston, who, Damrosch shows in Tocqueville's Discovery of America, celebrated Tocqueville's unpropitious landfall with predictable provincial pomp.”
“I've known him since shortly after he was elected to the European Parliament in 2004, mainly (but not exclusively) on the Cyprus issue where he has played a subtly constructive role in unpropitious circumstances.”
“Reports from Richmond, where the Virginia assembly met on October 20, 1788, were “very unpropitious to federal measures,” Washington reported in November.”
“Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune.”
“Stoll chose an unpropitious time to start a magazine for the California wine industry.”
“At first glance, the French information technology services group's € 850 million $1.14 billion cash and shares acquisition of Siemens Information Services, an unprofitable subsidiary of the German industrial giant, may loo k equally unpropitious.”
The Wall Street Journal: Siemens Tie-Up Augurs Well for Atos
“And that was with decidedly unpropitious circumstances.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unpropitious’.
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Mirrored Vowels
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• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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The Confidence Man
Words to remember from Melville's "The Confidence Man"
chevalier, hawk, unalloyed, ex-officio, scruple, pertinacity, epithet, gilt, bedizen, embrasure, escritoire, squaw and 278 more...
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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GRE Words
deftness, insular, patent, normative, abrasive, immutable, inscrutable, invulnerable, imperturbable, irresolute, injudicious, deft and 106 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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mandehble's list
arcane, esoteric, equivocal, stoic, precocious, insidious, banal, idyllic, caustic, antipathy, countenance, candor and 80 more...
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Prep015
churlish, aplomb, semblance, dissembler, dissimilitude, aphorism, stopgap, maverick, prognostication, traduce, nugatory, eminent and 53 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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AP Vocab
apposite, abrogate, fecundity, depredation, pontificate, clout, mot, apopleptic, sacrosanct, yakuza, nihilistic, arcologies and 43 more...
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