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- pronunciation:
- aw
spI
shihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
likely to be followed by favorable events.
We were encouraged by the auspicious beginning of our project.- synonyms:
- favorable, promising, propitious
- antonyms:
- ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous
- similar words:
- encouraging, hopeful
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| related words: |
best, bright, fortunate, happy, lucky, optimistic, portentous, prosperous, rosy, well |
adverb + (adj.)auspicious
and, especially, hardly, however, less, most, particularly, simply, under
(adj.)auspicious
+ noun
appearance,
beginning,
bewilderment,
bird,
birth,
circumstance,
condition,
date,
day,
debut,
discovery,
dream,
entry,
environment,
event,
feat,
habitation,
holiday,
hour,
marriage,
millennium,
moment,
month,
occasion,
opportunity,
painting,
peace,
representation,
set,
setting,
sign,
sky,
start,
symbol,
timing,
title,
trend
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| derivations: |
auspiciously (adv.), auspiciousness (n.) |
The word auspicious
contains the following parts:
au, avi
Latin
root
that means bird
  Example words:
spect, spec, spic, spectro
Latin
root
that means to see, look, watch
Example words:
aspect, auspicious, circumspect, conspectus, conspicuous, despicable, despise, expectation, inauspicious, inconspicuous, inspect, inspector, introspect, introspective, irrespective, perspective, perspicacious, perspicuous, prospect, prospective, prospectus, respect, respective, retrospect, retrospective, special, species, specific, specify, specimen, specious, spectacle, spectacular, spectator, specter, spectrograph, spectrometer, spectroscope, spectrum, speculate, speculum, suspect, suspicious
-ous, -ious
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of, characterized by
More about this word part:
The suffix "-ous
, -ious
" attaches to Latin, Greek, and native English roots
Example words:
adventurous, ambiguous, amorous, amorphous, anadromous, androgynous, anomalous, apetalous, apocarpous, apterous, aqueous, atrocious, auspicious, avaricious, azygous, captious, carnivorous, chromous, coterminous, covetous, curious, delicious, diadromous, diaphanous, dicephalous, dioecious, disingenuous, egregious, endogenous, enormous, epigynous, euphonious, extemporaneous, ferocious, fortuitous, generous, glorious, gracious, gregarious, heterogamous, heterogeneous, homogeneous, homogenous, homologous, homopterous, hydrous, hypogynous, illustrious, impecunious, impervious, incommodious, incongruous, inconspicuous, indecorous, infamous, infelicitous, innocuous, intravenous, isogenous, isomerous, joyous, judicious, laborious, ludicrous, lustrous, magnanimous, malicious, malodorous, monoclinous, monoecious, multiparous, nauseous, perigynous, poisonous, porous, precious, quadrumanous, ramous, rebellious, spacious, subaqueous, synchronous, tubuliflorous, unanimous, valorous, vicious, wondrous, xerophilous
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