| Main Entry: | untoward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | troublesome |
Synonyms: |
adverse, annoying, awkward, contrary, disastrous, disturbing, fractious, hapless, ill-starred, inauspicious, inconvenient, indocile, inimical, inopportune, intractable, irritating, luckless, misfortunate, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, star-crossed, undisciplined, unfavorable, unfortunate, ungovernable, unhappy, unlucky, unmanageable, unpliable, unpropitious, unruly, untimely, unyielding, vexatious, wild |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | untoward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper; not suitable |
Synonyms: |
improprietous, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, malodorous, out of place, rough*, unbecoming, uncouth, unfitting, ungodly, unseemly |
Antonyms: |
acceptable, proper, suitable |
| Main Entry: | amiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; defective |
Synonyms: |
awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, foul, glitched up, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward |
Antonyms: |
good, right |
| Main Entry: | clumsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not agile; awkward |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, unwieldy, weedy |
Antonyms: |
adroit, agile, athletic, clever, coordinated, couth, dexterous, expert, graceful |
| Main Entry: | disastrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, devastating |
Synonyms: |
adverse, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, ruinous, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward |
Antonyms: |
blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous |
| Main Entry: | hapless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate |
Synonyms: |
behind the eightball, cursed, hexed, ill-fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, jinxed, jonah, loser, luckless, miserable, poor fish, sad sack, snakebit, star-crossed, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, voodooed, woeful, wretched |
Antonyms: |
fortuitous, fortunate, lucky, well-off |
| Main Entry: | ill-fated/ill-starred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doomed |
Synonyms: |
blighted, catastrophic, destroyed, disastrous, hapless, ill-omened, inauspicious, luckless, misfortunate, ruined, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward |
Antonyms: |
happy, lucky |
| Main Entry: | improper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, immoral |
Synonyms: |
blue*, dirty, impolite, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, malodorous, naughty, risqué, rough, salacious, suggestive, unbecoming, unconventional, unequitable, unethical, ungodly, unjust, unrighteous, unrightful, unseemly, untoward, wrong, wrongful |
Antonyms: |
decent, formal, good, moral, proper, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | inauspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, unpromising |
Synonyms: |
bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising |
| Main Entry: | indecent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar; offensive |
Synonyms: |
X-rated, blue*, coarse, crude, dirty*, filthy, foul, foulmouthed, gross*, ill-bred, immodest, immoral, improper, impure, in bad taste, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, licentious, malodorous, off-color, outrageous, pornographic, raunchy*, raw, ridiculous, rough, salacious, scatological, shameless, shocking, smutty, tasteless, unbecoming, undecorous, unseemly, untoward, vile, wicked |
Antonyms: |
chaste, clean, decent, modest, pure, virtuous |