auspicate

Other forms of auspicate

past tense

auspicated·

present participle

auspicating·

third person

auspicates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about auspicate

What does auspicate mean?

auspicate means "indicate, as with a sign or an omen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in auspicate?

auspicate has 3 syllables: au-spi-cate. The stress falls on "au".

What is another word for auspicate?

Close synonyms include bode, portend, prognosticate, omen, presage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auspicate a common word?

auspicate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.