AUSPICIOUS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Auspicious

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɑspˈɪʃəs/ Listen

adjective

Auspicious adj.

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."

Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious chief."

Favoring; favorable; propitious; applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." "Auspicious gales."

Synonyms: See Propitious.

See images of 'Auspicious'

Etymology of 'Auspicious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Auspicious" Quotes from Famous Books

... also at least be active, and of rich and effectual comment Charlotte and he were fortunately alike capable. Wasn't this consensus literally their only way not to be ungracious? It was positively as if the measure of their escape from that danger were given by the growth between them, during their auspicious visit, of an exquisite ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... the assembly to order, and said there was cause to congratulate the vast assemblage of patriotic citizens convened on this centennial occasion, for the bright, auspicious weather that prevailed, and for the general health and prosperity of the country. He felt highly gratified with the patriotic demonstration, and rejoiced to see in our midst so many prominent citizens from sister States. The Governor of North Carolina, and ...

— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter

... well I ween, that on the day when first We Grecians hitherward our course address'd To Troy the messengers of blood and death Th' o'erruling son of Saturn, on our right His lightning flashing, with auspicious sign Assur'd us of ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch

... in tears. Do not misunderstand—too much. You are my friend, and I would like to live a while longer that we might amuse ourselves together. You have been an education. I find myself even now on this auspicious midnight writing with your words. But I mistrust you, friend. You would deny me this delicate martyrdom if I lived. For you are at bottom lamentably honorable. So now, as you read this, I am dead (a sentence out of Marie Corelli) ...

— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht

... past one and two, that afternoon, when Phyllis again appeared at Rest Haven—a very auspicious time, for Miss Marcia was in her room taking her usual long nap and Ted and his father had gone a mile or more down the beach to an inlet to try the fishing there. The two girls had the whole vicinity ...

— The Dragon's Secret • Augusta Huiell Seaman

More quotes...