auspicious

1. 1.

   auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

   “an auspicious beginning for the campaign”

   Antonymsinauspicious

   Similarbrightfortunate

Questions about auspicious

What does auspicious mean?

auspicious means "auguring favorable circumstances and good luck".

How many syllables are in auspicious?

auspicious has 3 syllables: au-spic-ious. The stress falls on "spic". In IPA it is /ɑˈspɪʃəs/.

What is the opposite of auspicious?

The recorded antonyms are inauspicious.

Is auspicious a common word?

auspicious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with auspicious?

1 word rhymes with auspicious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.