ill-omened

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ill-omened

adjective more ill-omened · most ill-omened

Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky. Ill betide those foul birds that delight to file their own nest, and disgust the ear with perpetual discord of ill-omened croak.
Similar: foreboding, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, ill-boding, ill-fated · Opposite: happy-omened, well-omened, promising, auspicious

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adj inauspicious, unlucky

Español	de mal fario, de mal agüero
Français	de mauvais augure

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@misc{ill_omened_2026,
  title = {ill-omened},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ill-omened},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}