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propitious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of propitious

1 having qualities which inspire hope

  • the success of the first big movie in May was a propitious start for the summer season of blockbusters
Synonyms of propitious

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat
Words Related to propitious

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good
Near Antonyms of propitious

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched
Antonyms of propitious

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

2 pointing toward a happy outcome

  • a propitious time for starting a business
Synonyms of propitious

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising
Words Related to propitious

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary
Near Antonyms of propitious

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening
Antonyms of propitious

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

Synonym Discussion of propitious

favorable, auspicious, propitious mean pointing toward a happy outcome. favorable implies that the persons involved are approving or helpful or that the circumstances are advantageous.
    • favorable weather conditions
auspicious applies to something taken as a sign or omen promising success before or at the start of an event.
    • an auspicious beginning
propitious may also apply to beginnings but often implies a continuing favorable condition.
    • a propitious time for starting a business

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