GRE word of the day: Auspicious(Adjective)

Auspicious(Adjective)

1. Conducive to success; favorable: "an auspicious moment to hold an election".

2. Giving or being a sign of future success.

A Janissary musketeer. The entire Janissary corps was disbanded during the Auspicious Incident.

Ever wake up to chirping birds and a blue sky and think: hey, this is going to be a good day? If so, the clear skies and mellifluous avian chatter are auspicious signs: they indicate that the day is going to be a lucky one.

Auspicious, which means favorable and likely to bring success, doesn’t necessarily have to refer to a day where it looks like everything will go your way. Auspicious signs pop up in the economy (right now with house prices on the rise pundits are crowing that a full rebound is afoot); auspicious signs can indeed pop up in your GRE prep (your score has been consistently going up and you have secured the ideal testing time). And if you happened on this post, wondering what GRE words are likely to show up…then, hey, that’s pretty auspicious. If you actually see auspicious test day, then that’s very auspicious.

Synonyms

favourable,favorable,propitious,fortunate,hopeful, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat

Antonyms

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

Example Sentences of AUSPICIOUS

1. His acclaimed first novel was an auspicious debut.

2. After his auspicious debut, Chambers became sought after by serious collectors of folk art; but given that the present show is now only the second he has had and is the first retrospective look at him, he is probably as obscure to the general museum going public today as he was in 1942. —Sanford Schwartz, New York Review of Books, 15 Jan. 2009

3. There is, first of all, Marconi himself, the 21-year-old prodigy who burst on London with his gizmo in 1896. This wasn't the most auspicious moment for a half-Irish, half-Italian unknown to announce that he had bested some of the empire's greatest scientific minds. —Kevin Baker, New York Times Book Review, 5 Nov. 2006

4. Indeed, it hardly seems like an auspicious time to introduce a brand of cigarettes, especially for tiny Star, which accounts for just over 1 percent of the U.S. market with its four brands of discount smokes. —David Noonan, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2000

More AUSPICIOUS sentence examples

• auspicious of starts with chetan falling early on.
• auspicious for a holy war.
• auspicious debut.
• We cannot contemplate with equanimity anything less than a truly auspicious beginning having the good wishes of everyone concerned.
• For example, the use of the color red is considered auspicious in china.
• auspicious occasion.
• The cars were not selling well, not a particularly auspicious start for a special edition.
• It seemed more auspicious than a place marked with a pentacle, and less numerous than the places not marked at all.
• auspicious beginning.
• Stein winge âin a highly auspicious house debut, matthew best has taken over the title role from willard white.
• auspicious symbols.
• Click to enlarge the marriage did not get off to a very auspicious start.
• auspicious start for the new bedford town band.
• To say the least, it is not auspicious.
• auspicious moment for us, it will allow us to go from strength to strength.
• It is especially auspicious to visit all eight in one pilgrimage.