Auspicious
[ɔː'spɪʃəs] or [ɔ'spɪʃəs]
Definition
(adj.) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; 'an auspicious beginning for the campaign' .
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Definition
(a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
(a.) Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
(a.) Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
Editor: Tess
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Prosperous, successful, fortunate, lucky, happy, red-letter.[2]. Propitious, promising, favorable, seasonable, opportune, golden, bright.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Propitious, lucky, favorable, encouraging, satisfactory, successful, hopeful,promising, happy, golden, fortunate, opportune, prosperous
ANT:Unpropitious, unfavorable, discouraging, unsatisfactory, inauspicious,unpromising, abortive, {[hope-]?}
Edited by Jason
Examples
- When she told Marianne what she had done, however, her first reply was not very auspicious. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It is my auspicious hand that has given the first push to your fortune in the world. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On so auspicious an occasion, I prefer to take it in the form of a Gum-Tickler. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Taking advantage of this auspicious moment, Mr. Guppy presents his friend under the impromptu name of Mr. Weevle and states the object of their visit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty's auspicious reign. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The auspicious event is always commemorated according to certain forms settled and prescribed by Mr. Bagnet some years since. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I tell thee, never will dawn a morrow so auspicious as the next, for the deliverance of the noble Saxon race. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The auspicious nuptials take place; the newly married come home to this charming mansion; the lady is received, let us suppose, by Flintwinch. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I trust I may--ha--hail--this desire,' said Mr Dorrit, in an encouraging and forgiving manner, 'as an auspicious omen. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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