(a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
(a.) Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
(a.) Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their search has not enjoyed the most auspicious of starts with Rodgers, who recently signed a one-year rolling contract at Celtic, having distanced himself from the position and the West Ham co-chairman David Gold ruling out Bilic leaving.
(2) This morning didn’t get off to an auspicious start.
(3) Sales of PCs were down in the fourth quarter, reflecting customer disinterest and setting off alarm bells among investors that the future was not auspicious.
(4) If timing is everything in life, then Adam Crozier, who takes over as ITV's chief executive today, is arriving at arguably its most auspicious point for a decade.
(5) Nevertheless, it is the place where a new life form develops and it is considered auspicious.
(6) More than 400 of the world's 9,000 female parliamentarians gathered in Brussels last week on an auspicious anniversary.
(7) Her feature film debut was auspicious and striking – she played the sassy buddy of Jonah Hill in Superbad – and rapidly followed it with roles in The Rocker and The House Bunny .
(8) The former Manchester United and Everton star, whose elder brother Gary has forged a successful career as soccer pundit while on England's coaching staff, got off to a far less auspicious start as co-commentator and analyst.
(9) Demand is predicted to hold up this year, even though the rupee has weakened and there will be fewer auspicious days in India than in 2011 – days marked out in the Hindu calendar as lucky for events such as marriage, buying and selling.
(10) Nine out of 10 People born in the year of the sheep do not find happiness in their lives, according to Chinese myth, and anecdotal evidence says that many families delay having children until a more auspicious year rolls around.
(11) As the pilot launch of the National hit the streets on Monday morning – from Herald and Sunday Herald publisher Newsquest – less charitable observers were suggesting that launching at a political party’s hoolie might not have been the most auspicious of starts for an organ that insists it will not be a mouthpiece for the SNP.
(12) More recently, hijras have been seen as auspicious and are often asked to bless celebrations such as marriages and births.
(13) T he moment that changed James Watt’s life – his beer epiphany, which he recalls with surprising (or well-rehearsed) precision – did not arrive in the most auspicious venue: “It was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from the States, bought at Tesco’s in Stonehaven, to wash down some fish and chips.
(14) Their external sex-organs are the first to initiate reproduction and both are considered auspicious.
(15) Others draw strength from the widespread practice of interpreting what are seen as auspicious signs.
(16) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
(17) 2 The leader amongst the diners then adds the remaining ingredients, making auspicious wishes as each ingredient is added or pointed out: raw fish for abundance, lime for good luck, five spice and pepper for good fortune, sweet sauce for a honeyed year, white radish for success, carrot for eminence, ginger for good luck, oil for good fortune and luck, peanuts for prosperity, crackers for prosperity and gold, and pomelo for luck and auspicious value.
(18) For those entering Britain in search of a better life, it is hardly an auspicious place to disembark.
(19) But despite the auspiciousness of the morning, there was no doubting its sombreness.
(20) Although the past has been auspicious, the future promises even more for the continued growth of Physiatry and the Physiatrist.
Inauspicious
Definition:
(a.) Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Substitutes Ricardo Quaresma (for Ronaldo, 25) 7 Started inauspiciously, needing treatment after a tackle from Umtiti and after a clash of heads with Evra, but went on to play well on the wing.
(2) And they gave us the word “euphemism” in the first place – “to use a favourable word in place of an inauspicious one”.
(3) In an inauspicious start to talks over awarding Greece a third bailout , international officials have postponed the negotiations after failing to agree with their hosts where they will stay and how they will operate when in Athens.
(4) Marriage delays were also affected by horoscope problems, delays in elder brother's and sister's marriages, poverty of parents, gossip about premarital relations, physical deformities of the girl, and the combination of inauspicious dates.
(5) Carousel , which transferred from the National in 1994, did decently (it won plaudits for being the first mixed-race production to appear on Broadway), but Hytner's next big musical, inauspiciously entitled Sweet Smell of Success , met with disaster.
(6) Similarly inauspicious are concomitant low antigenic activity in tumor and IgC deficit or a marked dysimmunoglobulinemia.
(7) It was by all accounts an inauspicious stateside debut, with the then 24-year-old showing very little that afternoon to indicate he’d be world heavyweight champion in less than three years’ time.
(8) If anyone has the brazen confidence to take on such an inauspicious project, it is Stuart Lipton, a man who exudes the self-assurance you might expect of someone who has built almost 30m sq ft of commercial space in London over the past 30 years.
(9) Both forms verify that in certain cases favourable, compensating components must be taken into account, however, sometimes this effect could be inauspicious.
(10) After this inauspicious start, the Conservatives lost the general election a year later.
(11) The British bronze medal winner’s snowboarding odyssey has taken her from an inauspicious start on a dry slope in Churchill to an Olympic podium finish.
(12) There are certainly headwinds in Australia, magnified by inauspicious foreign currency movements, but we have been consistently cost conscious and are transforming our publishing operations longer-term into multi-platform businesses.
(13) Respiratory infections are particularly frequent in aged subjects and cause severe and often inauspicious complications) such as compromised cell-mediated immunity.
(14) The sale got off to a messy and inauspicious start.
(15) Mark Zuckerberg's baby got off to an inauspicious start; the shares had a teeny blip up after the start of trading but have gone downhill ever since.
(16) BT Sport, launched on Thursday night by its parent company in a bold £1bn bid to take on Sky Sports , will hope that it is not an inauspicious sign that one of its heavily trailed "ambassadors" might be about to trade the Premier League for La Liga.
(17) His resignation added to the inauspicious start for the FPC, a key plank of the coalition's policy to rid the City of the "light-touch" regulation pursued by Labour which proved so disastrous – or "tragic", as US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner called it last week.
(18) An afternoon that got off to an inauspicious start, when stewards confiscated a banner protesting against Welsh involvement in Team GB at the Olympic Games, ended on a much happier note, as Gary Speed celebrated another highly impressive performance from a side who are growing in confidence with every game.
(19) Dumbarton only managed four draws in that time, as they crashed out of the Scottish First Division and got off to an inauspicious start in the second.
(20) Two goals down against the San Jose Earthquakes in the California Clásico, it looked as if Gerrard’s league debut would offer little respite from the miserable and inauspicious end to his Liverpool career.