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auspicious Adjective showing the signs of future success
USAGE: The use of auspicious to mean `very special' (as in this auspicious occasion) should be avoided. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
auspicious adjective favourable, timely, happy, promising, encouraging, bright, lucky, hopeful, fortunate, prosperous, rosy, opportune, propitious, felicitous << OPPOSITE unpromising Translations (opening, start) → vielversprechend |
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And now the old ships and their men are gone; the new ships and the new men, many of them bearing the old, auspicious names, have taken up their watch on the stern and impartial sea, which offers no opportunities but to those who know how to grasp them with a ready hand and an undaunted heart. On the other hand, it seemed to Van Baerle an auspicious omen that this very cell was assigned to him, for according to his ideas, a jailer ought never to have given to a second pigeon the cage from which the first had so easily flown. Everything looked auspicious for their spring campaign. |
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