Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
auguring favorable circumstances and good luck;
- Example: "an auspicious beginning for the campaign"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Auspicious \Aus*pi"cious\, a. [See Auspice.]
1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving
promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting
good; as, an auspicious beginning.
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Auspicious union of order and freedom. --Macaulay.
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2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious
chief." --Dryden.
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3. Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or
things. "Thy auspicious mistress." --Shak. "Auspicious
gales." --Pope.
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Syn: See Propitious.
[1913 Webster] -- Aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. --
Aus*pi"cious*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
auspicious
adj 1: auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an
auspicious beginning for the campaign" [ant:
inauspicious, unfortunate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "auspicious":
advantageous, appropriate, befitting, beneficial, benevolent,
benign, benignant, blessed, blessed with luck, bon, bonny, braw,
bright, bright with promise, bueno, capital, cheering, cogent,
commendable, convenient, dexter, elegant, encouraging, estimable,
excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, favored, favoring,
felicitous, fine, fit, fitting, fortunate, full of promise, golden,
good, goodly, grand, halcyon, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful,
in luck, inspiring, inspiriting, kind, laudable, looking up, lucky,
meet, nice, noble, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise,
opportune, pleasant, pregnant of good, profitable, promising,
propitious, prosperous, providential, reassuring, regal, ripe,
roseate, rosy, royal, seasonable, skillful, sortable, sound,
splendid, suitable, supportive, timely, useful, valid, very good,
virtuous, well-timed, white