Usually means: Not favorable; unlikely to succeed.
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  1. unpropitious: Merriam-Webster
  2. unpropitious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unpropitious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unpropitious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unpropitious: Vocabulary.com
  6. unpropitious: Wordnik
  7. unpropitious: Wiktionary
  8. unpropitious: Dictionary.com
  9. unpropitious: Rhymezone
  10. unpropitious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. unpropitious: FreeDictionary.org
  12. unpropitious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. unpropitious: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. unpropitious: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not propitious; unfavourable, untimely.

Similar:
inauspicious, ill, ominous, thunderous, impropitious, unfavourable, favourless, unopportune, untowards, unfelicitous, more...

Opposite:
propitious, favorable, auspicious, advantageous

Types:
inauspicious, unlucky, unfortunate, untimely, disadvantageous, precarious, more...

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Similar:
inauspicious, ill, ominous, thunderous, impropitious, unfavourable, favourless, unopportune, untowards, unfelicitous, more...

Opposite:
propitious, favorable, auspicious, advantageous

Types:
inauspicious, unlucky, unfortunate, untimely, disadvantageous, precarious, more...



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