Related Searches
on Ask.com
auspicious - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | auspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging; favorable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, bright, favorable, felicitous, fortunate, golden, halcyon, happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, timely, well-timed |
| Notes: | auspicious implies success in the future while propitious means favorable conditions are present; auspicious means promising or of good omen - not just special or memorable |
| Antonyms: | inauspicious, inopportune, ominous, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | advantageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, beneficial, expedient, fortunate, helpful, opportune, profitable, propitious, worthwhile, for the best |
| Main Entry: | cheering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, bright, comforting, hopeful, promising, propitious, heartening |
| Antonyms: | depressing, discouraging, dejecting, disheartening |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, lucky, on a roll*, opportune, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do, born with a silver spoon, gaining, get a break, in luck, in the gravy, overcoming, providential, sunny side |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, chummy*, civil, close, conciliatory, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, attached, buddy-buddy*, clubby, comradely, confiding, on good terms, welcoming, well-disposed* |
| Antonyms: | aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, unfriendly, unsociable, uncompanionable, unreceptive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indicative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibitive |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, auspicious, characteristic, connotative, demonstrative, diagnostic, expressive, inauspicious, ominous, significant, suggestive, symbolic, symptomatic, testimonial, augural, denotative, denotive, designative, emblematic, evidential, evincive, indicatory, indicial, pointing to, prognostic, significatory, testatory |
| Main Entry: | lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fortunate, opportune |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, adventitious, auspicious, beneficial, benign, blessed, charmed, favored, felicitous, fortuitous, golden, happy, hopeful, hot*, on a roll*, promising, propitious, prosperous, successful, timely, well, all systems go, coming up roses, everything going, getting a break, hit it big, holding aces, in the groove, into something, on a streak, providential, serendipitous, striking it rich |
| Antonyms: | bad, inopportune, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsuccessful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opportune |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous, lucky |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable, felicitous, fit, fitting, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, helpful, pat, proper, propitious, seasonable, suitable, timely, well-timed, timeous |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, inauspicious, inopportune, unlucky, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | oracular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prophetic |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, apocalyptic, arcane, auspicious, authoritative, cabalistic, clairvoyant, cryptic, dogmatic, foreboding, imperious, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, ominous, peremptory, portentous, positive, prescient, sage, secret, significant, vague, venerable, wise, Delphian, anticipating, auguring, discovering, divining, divulging, fatidic, forecasting, foretelling, interpretive, mantic, portending, predicting, presaging, proclaiming, prognosticating, prophesying, sibylline, soothsaying, vatic |
| Main Entry: | pat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relevant, suitable |
| Synonyms: | apposite, apropos, apt, auspicious, felicitous, fitting, happy, neat, opportune, pertinent, propitious, timely, rehearsed, to the point |
| Antonyms: | inexact, irrelevant, unacceptable, unsuitable, wrong, imprecise |
| Main Entry: | promising |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeful |
| Synonyms: | able, auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, gifted, happy, likely, lucky, propitious, rising, roseate, rosy, talented, up-and-coming, assuring, reassuring |
| Antonyms: | hopeless, unpromising |
| Main Entry: | seasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timely, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | apropos, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable, fit, opportune, pertinent, propitious, prosperous, relevant, suitable, welcome, well-timed, providential, seasonal, timeous, towardly |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, inclement, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, unfitting |
| Main Entry: | successful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable, profitable |
| Synonyms: | acknowledged, advantageous, auspicious, blooming, blossoming, champion, efficacious, extraordinary, flourishing, fortuitous, fortunate, fruitful, happy, lucky, lucrative, moneymaking, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, prosperous, rewarding, rolling, strong, thriving, top, triumphant, unbeaten, undefeated, victorious, wealthy, ahead of the game, at the top, at top of ladder, bestselling, booming, crowned, on track, out in front, paying |
| Antonyms: | losing, unfavorable, unprofitable, unsuccessful, forfeiting |
| Main Entry: | timely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at the right time |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, auspicious, convenient, favorable, fit, fitting, in the nick of time, judicious, likely, meet, modern, now, opportune, pat, promising, prompt, proper, propitious, prosperous, punctual, seasonable, suitable, up-to-date, well-timed, with it*, in good time, timeous, towardly, up-to-the-minute |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, inopportune, unsuitable, untimely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | well-timed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | timely |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, favorable, opportune, seasonable |
| Antonyms: | inauspicious |
| Main Entry: | propitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of promise; good, favorable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, brave, bright, encouraging, fortunate, happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, pat*, promising, prosperous, rosy, seasonable, timely, toward, useful, well-timed, dexter, favoring |
| Antonyms: | inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | benign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mild, especially describing weather |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, balmy, bright, favorable, fortunate, gentle, healthful, propitious, refreshing, temperate, warm |
| Antonyms: | bad, severe |
| Main Entry: | favorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good, timely, advantageous |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, auspicious, beneficial, benign, bright, cheering, convenient, encouraging, fair, fit, fortunate, gratifying, happy, healthful, helpful, hopeful, kindly, lucky, nice, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, promising, propitious, prosperous, seasonable, suitable, toward, useful, welcome, well-timed, wholesome, worthy, benefic, full of promise, pleasureful, providential, reassuring |
| Antonyms: | bad, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, unfavorable, hindering, hurting, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | golden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, advantageous |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, best, blissful, bright, brilliant, delightful, excellent, favorable, flourishing, glorious, happy, joyful, joyous, opportune, precious, promising, propitious, prosperous, resplendent, rich, rosy, shining, successful, valuable |
| Antonyms: | disadvantaged, ugly, unsuccessful |
| Main Entry: | happy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lucky |
| Synonyms: | accidental, advantageous, appropriate, apt, auspicious, befitting, casual, convenient, correct, effective, efficacious, enviable, favorable, felicitous, fitting, fortunate, incidental, just, meet, nice, opportune, promising, proper, propitious, right, satisfactory, seasonable, successful, suitable, timely, well-timed, providential |
| Antonyms: | forsaken, hopeless, troubled, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
