auspicious
Promising good fortune
Auspicious describes something that suggests favorable prospects or good fortune ahead.
An auspicious beginning or auspicious sign points toward success.
The word carries a slightly formal tone, often appearing in contexts like ceremonies or major undertakings: The clear weather seemed an auspicious start to the voyage.
The opposite is inauspicious.
Favorable for success
- promisingShowing signs of success
- opportuneFavorable in timing
- advantageousProviding benefit or gain
- beneficialProducing good results
encouraging · hopeful · bright · golden · fortunate · blessed · timely · well-timed
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- presageIndicate beforehand
- signMark conveying information
prophecy · divination · oracle · prognostication · foreshadowing · herald · premonition · soothsaying
Accidental fortunate discovery
- providenceDivine protective care
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- fatePredetermined course of events
karma · blessing · windfall · boon · luck · chance · prosperity · good fortune
Formal beginning ceremony
- commencementAct of starting
- launchSet into motion
- dawnDay's first glow
- adventNotable arrival or emergence
genesis · inception · threshold · birth · outset · kickoff · foundation · initiation
propitious
Favorable for success
- promisingShowing signs of success
- opportuneFavorable in timing
- advantageousProviding benefit or gain
beneficial · encouraging · hopeful · bright · golden · fortunate · blessed · timely · well-timed · felicitous
portent
Sign of future calamity
sign · prophecy · divination · oracle · prognostication · foreshadowing · herald · premonition · soothsaying · foretelling
serendipity
Accidental fortunate discovery
- providenceDivine protective care
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- destinyPredetermined course of events
fate · karma · blessing · windfall · boon · luck · chance · prosperity · good fortune · felicity
inauguration
Formal beginning ceremony
- commencementAct of starting
- launchSet into motion
- dawnDay's first glow
advent · genesis · inception · threshold · birth · outset · kickoff · foundation · initiation · nascence
- fortunelucky, luck, fortune, fate, destiny
- positive outlookhopeful, positive, optimistic, upbeat, cheerful
- astrologyastrology, zodiac, horoscope, horoscopes, birth chart
- beneficialbeneficial, helpful, advantageous, favorable, good
auspiciousinauspicious
Showing poor prospects
ominous · ill-omened · unpropitious · ill-fated · ill-starred
auspiciousunlucky
Prone to misfortune
unfortunate · unfavorable · unfavourable · ill-fated · luckless
auspiciousunpromising
Showing little potential
discouraging · hopeless · bleak · disheartening · unfavorable
- auspicious dayFavorable time for undertakings
- auspicious datesTimes deemed favorable
inauspicious, auspiciousness, auspiciously, inauspiciously, inauspiciousness