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Adjective: inauspicious  ,i,no'spi-shus
  1. Contrary to your interests or welfare
    "inauspicious circumstances";
    - adverse, untoward
     
  2. Presaging ill fortune
    "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven";
    - ill, ominous
     
  3. Not auspicious; boding ill
    - unfortunate

See also: auspiciousness, propitiousness, unfavorable [US], unfavourable [Brit, Cdn], unpromising, unpropitious

Encyclopedia: Inauspicious