auspicious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
    • an auspicious beginning for the campaign

WordNet

Aus*pi"cious adjective
Etymology
See Auspice.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913