AUSPICIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auspicious mean? 

• AUSPICIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective AUSPICIOUS has 1 sense:

1. auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

  Familiarity information: AUSPICIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSPICIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

Context example:

an auspicious beginning for the campaign

Similar:

bright; hopeful; promising (likely to turn out well in the future)

fortunate; rosy (presaging good fortune)

Also:

propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)

Attribute:

auspiciousness; propitiousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)

Antonym:

inauspicious (not auspicious; boding ill)

Derivation:

auspiciousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)

 Context examples 

When she told Marianne what she had done, however, her first reply was not very auspicious.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty’s auspicious reign.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being afterwards commanded by his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian heresy, he, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his most auspicious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)