adj
Meaning 1
Of good omen; indicating future success.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
auspicious
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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UK: /ɔːˈspɪ.ʃəs/
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US: /ɔˈspɪʃ.əs/
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cot-caught-merger: /ɑˈspɪʃ.əs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Conducive to success.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- This is an auspicious day.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: favourable, favorable, promising, propitious, fortunate, lucky
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Marked by success; prosperous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lucky, fortunate
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an auspicious beginning for the campaign
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: inauspicious
History
Etymology
From auspice + -ious, from Latin auspicium (“augury”), from auspex (“augur”), possibly via French.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: спрыя́льны (spryjálʹny) — indicating future success
- Bulgarian: благоприятен (blagoprijaten) — indicating future success
- Bulgarian: вещаещ добро (veštaešt dobro) — indicating future success
- Catalan: propici — indicating future success
- Catalan: favorable — indicating future success
- Chinese Mandarin: 吉利 (jílì) — indicating future success
- Chinese Mandarin: 吉祥 (jíxiáng) — indicating future success
- Czech: slibný — indicating future success
- Czech: nadějný — indicating future success
- Czech: příznivý — indicating future success
- Danish: lovende — indicating future success
- Dutch: gunstig — indicating future success
- Esperanto: aŭspicia — indicating future success
- Finnish: lupaava — indicating future success
- Finnish: hyväenteinen — indicating future success
- French: propice — indicating future success
- French: faste — indicating future success
- French: de bon augure — indicating future success
- German: günstig — indicating future success
- German: vielversprechend — indicating future success
- German: verheißungsvoll — indicating future success
- German: glückverheißend — indicating future success
- Greek: ευοίωνος (evoíonos) — indicating future success
- Ancient Greek: αἴσιος (aísios) — indicating future success
- Hindi: शुभ (śubh) — indicating future success
- Hindi: कल्याणी (kalyāṇī) — indicating future success
- Hindi: मंगलमय (maṅgalmay) — indicating future success
- Irish: dea-thuarúil — indicating future success
- Irish: fabhrach — indicating future success
- Japanese: めでたい (medetai) — indicating future success
- Japanese: 喜ばしい (yorokobashii) — indicating future success
- Latin: faustus — indicating future success
- Macedonian: благопри́јатен (blagopríjaten) — indicating future success
- Macedonian: по́волен (póvolen) — indicating future success
- Norwegian Bokmål: gunstig — indicating future success
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gunstig — indicating future success
- Portuguese: promissor — indicating future success
- Russian: благоприя́тный (blagoprijátnyj) — indicating future success
- Spanish: próvido — indicating future success
- Swedish: lovande — indicating future success
- Swedish: lyckobådande — indicating future success
- Swedish: gynnsam — indicating future success
- Swedish: lyckobringande — indicating future success
- Turkish: uğurlu — indicating future success
- Ottoman Turkish: اوغورلو (uğurlu) — indicating future success
- Ottoman Turkish: میمون (maymun) — indicating future success
- Ukrainian: сприя́тливий (spryjátlyvyj) — indicating future success
- Urdu: شبھ (śubh) — indicating future success
- Welsh: ffafrol — indicating future success