Word Meanings - AUSPICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.

Additional info about word: AUSPICIOUS

1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious chief." Dryden. 3. Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." Shak. "Auspicious gales." Pope. Syn. -- See Propitious. -- Aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Aus*pi"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUSPICIOUS)

• Favorable
• Permissive
• indulgent
• propitious
• concessive
• partial
• fond
• liberal
• advantageous
• auspicious
• friendly
• Fortunate
• Lucky
• happy
• felicitous
• prosperous
• providential
• successful
• favorable
• Opportune
• Timely
• seasonable
• appropriate
• suitable
• fit
• meet
• Propitious
• beneficial
• welldisposed
• gracious
• benign
• fortunate

Related words: (words related to AUSPICIOUS)

• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• CONCESSIVELY
  By way of concession.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• LUCKY PROACH
  See FATHERLASHER
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• FORTUNATE
  1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment. 2. Receiving same unforeseen
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• PERMISSIVE
  1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• HAPPY
  1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
• BENIGNLY
  In a benign manner.
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• CONCESSIVE
  Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. Lowth.
• SUCCESSFUL
  Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome,
• FELICITOUS
  Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate. Felicitous words and images. M. Arnold. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ness, n.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• IMPROSPEROUS
  Not prosperous. Dryden. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ness, n.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.