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    [Adjective]  | "aus*pi*cious" | \ ȯ-ˈspi-shəs \


    1: showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious

    2: attended by good auspices : fortunate, prosperous


    Origin: 1593 ;

     Latin auspicium {see: |auspice|auspice} + {see: |-ous|-ous};

    [Adjective]  | "auspicious" 


    1: having qualities which inspire hope;


      * e.g., " ... told him she couldn't dance with him just then, but her auspicious smile encouraged him to ask again later "





    2: pointing toward a happy outcome;


      * e.g., " ... began the season with an auspicious win against their strongest football rival "





     [ "auspicious" ]

    1: Promising good fortune; propitious.

      * e.g.,  ... The news that a team of British climbers had reached the summit of Everest seemed an auspicious sign for the reign of newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II. 

     [ "auspicious" ]

    1: good, or favorable.

      * e.g.,  ... He made an auspicious beginning by getting an A. 

     [ "Auspicious" ]

    1: Promising well for future: marked by lucky signs or good omens, and therefore by the promise of success or happiness.

      * e.g.,  ... The later school days of my friend were as auspicious as the first. 

     [ "Auspicious" ]

    1: When somebody is particularly suspicious, unusual or unknown

      * e.g.,  ... That dude has been acting real auspicious since we found out about his fury collection. 

     [ "Auspicious" ]

    1: Something that you expected would seem extremely stupid to do, but you just did it anyway.

      * e.g.,  ... I knew it was auspicious to hop in the homies brand new 2003 Honda Civic with the club on the stering wheel. 

     [ "auspicious dissent" ]

    1: The YouTube channel where you wear a suit coat with no pants.

      * e.g.,  ... Did you see auspicious dissent look up his name in the thesaurus? 

     [ "auspicious incident" ]

    1: The 1826 destruction of the Janissary corps in the Ottoman Empire. The Janissaries felt inadequate because the Sultan was building a new army, so they revolted and got massacred.

      * e.g.,  ... Bob: I sexiled my roommate last night. What an auspicious incident! 

     [ "Auspicious" ]

    1: Something that is quite odd and suspicious, in a weird manner.

      * e.g.,  ... A king to his servant whom he thinks is betraying the throne : You're acting quite auspicious pal ! 

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