unpropitious

adjective

Definition of unpropitiousnext
as in unfavorable

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Recent Examples of unpropitious Handing the baton to Harris at this unpropitious time for Democrats is like Napoleon’s handing off his military command to Marshal Ney to conduct the disastrous French retreat from Moscow in 1812, featuring 500,000 French casualties. — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2024 Here are a handful of quick Thesaurus pulls to help paint a picture of how the unit played: unpropitious, cataclysmic, demoralizing, execrable. — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2023 The exhausted refugees are greeted by a functionary of the Relief Committee with the unpropitious nickname Statistics Babu. — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022 That will be an unpropitious setting for launching a network: if the teams are unclear on the goal, the risk of confusion is considerable. — Steve Denning, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021 JoyFish sits in a strip mall in an unpropitious space that has seen several restaurants come and go. — Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpropitious
  1. unfavorable
  2. unpromising
  3. hopeless
  4. cheerless
  5. dismal
  6. gloomy
  7. morbid
  8. dreary
Adjective
  • Trump has derided the outlets as being unfavorable to him and a drain on taxpayer money.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • According to a Quinnipiac poll released in mid-March, only 7 percent of American voters have a favorable opinion of Putin, while 81 percent have an unfavorable opinion of him.
    — Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Definition of unfavorable
Adjective
  • Yet despite the minimal funding and unpromising history, the search continues to garner both adherents and interest.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Aug. 2012
  • With an aging global population, rates of Alzheimer’s disease on the rise, high costs of care for those with dementia, and an unpromising landscape for effective drugs, questions of how to prevent or slow progression of the disease are important for all of us—not just taxi drivers.
    — Christopher M. Worsham, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of unpromising
Adjective
  • Previewing the playoffs with a playoff team draft Finding 3 positive thoughts for each of the NHL’s 15 most hopeless teams 16 stats: Blues’ turnaround, Lane Hutson’s stardom and Stars’ struggles Comments D Dan N. · 4h 17m ago Helle is thee best.
    — Scott Powers, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Mimi seesaws between hopeless heroin addict and righteous truth-teller.
    — Jeffrey Seller, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
Definition of hopeless
Adjective
  • Gomez gestured across the street toward 100 Centre Street—the criminal courthouse, a cheerless Art Deco building the color of cinder blocks.
    — Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Gomez gestured across the street toward 100 Centre Street—the criminal courthouse, a cheerless Art Deco building the color of cinder blocks.
    — Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of cheerless
Adjective
  • An entire generation, dead or grieving, is missing from 1923’s dismal final portrait.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
  • So far, the $250 million tentpole has generated a dismal $77 million domestically and $168 million worldwide.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 6 Apr. 2025
Definition of dismal
Adjective
  • What are the financial markets saying about tariffs? Market observers started the day gloomy.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But Aldrich had miscalculated and Hull had been too gloomy.
    — Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2025
Definition of gloomy
Adjective
  • There’s something quite whimsical but also quite morbid about it.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, ARTnews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • According to studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health since the 1960s, obesity rates nationwide have tripled, while morbid obesity has increased some 10 times throughout the same period.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of morbid
Adjective
  • But by the 1950s, the explosion of exciting, free-standing restaurants of individual excellence helped put the kibosh on impersonal hotel dining rooms as dreary alternatives.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Normally, this week is full of the vibrant colors of the azaleas and beautiful scenes around Augusta National, but Monday is a bit dreary with thunderstorms.
    — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Definition of dreary

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“Unpropitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpropitious. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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