Auspicious: Definition and part of speech

Auspicious

  1. a. Favoring; favorable; propitious; — applied to persons or things.
  2. a. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
  3. a. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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