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auspicious

adj
/ɔːˈspɪ.ʃəs/UK/ɔˈspɪʃ.əs/US/ɑˈspɪʃ.əs/

Etymology

From auspice + -ious, from Latin auspicium (“augury”), from auspex (“augur”), possibly via French.

  1. derived from auspicium — “augury”

Definitions

  1. Of good omen

    Of good omen; indicating future success.

    • It was a boast of Napoleon, that the very weather owned the influence of his auspicious star—his triumphal entry, his procession, or his fête, were always marked by sunshine.
    • Backed by the Salsoul Orchestra, Carol's auspicious single debut, "More," was one of the very first commercially-available 12" singles and was a smash, reaching the upper regions of the disco charts in 1976.
    • Losing nearly a third of the heavy cruisers, including Admiral Kurita's flagship, the Atago, was not an especially-auspicious start to the operation, especially with the admiral himself having to be fished out of the water by a destroyer.

  2. Conducive to success.

    • This is an auspicious day.

  3. Marked by success

    Marked by success; prosperous.

    • Sure, ſuch a Day as this vvas never ſeen! / The Sun himſelf, on this auſpicious Day, / Shines like a Beau in a nevv Birth-Day Suit: […]

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Derived

auspiciously, auspiciousness, unauspicious

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at auspicious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01auspicious02omen03evil04corrupt05degenerate06bad07unfavorable08unfavourable

A definitional loop anchored at auspicious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at auspicious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA