What's the difference between auspicious and omen?

Auspicious


Definition:

  • (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.

Omen


Definition:

  • (n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
  • (v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 7-OMEN was the major fluorescent biliary species, but, by 24 h, N-demethyl menogaril accounted for approximately 40% of biliary drug fluorescence.
  • (2) In this study defibrotide produced a significantly lower pressure inside the circuit compared to the control group and gave a protective effect against those pathological changes which appeared during extracorporeal circulation and that may be considered omens of a state of shock.
  • (3) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (4) Myth is seen as an external representation of man's inner life; omens and the gods are viewed in this context.
  • (5) Maybe it was a bad omen for Los Angeles to hand out white towels to the fans in the stands.
  • (6) Neil Gaiman, with whom he wrote Good Omens (1991), agrees: "He's got better and better over the years – he now follows the story, not the jokes, while I think the early books followed the jokes … He makes it look easy.
  • (7) The opposition would be making a mistake if it refused to engage and they have got to hear what the regime has to say,” he said “The talks have to go ahead even if the omens are not good and it is unlikely there will be much progress.
  • (8) Some see the disintegrating Ceta deal as a bad omen for the UK, which wants to negotiate a post-Brexit free trade agreement with the EU.
  • (9) Multiple, sometimes bilateral FB are frequent and FB of a vegetable nature are of serious omen.
  • (10) It’s Godzilla versus King Kong, and the omens aren’t heartening.
  • (11) The Omen-syndrome is not a disease on its own, but a complication of congenital SCID.
  • (12) Statistical data have shown that both shock and coma are bad prognostic omens and patients presenting with these signs have less than a 50% chance leaving the hospital alive and well, even if they receive optimum emergency management.
  • (13) Kick off very shortly... 1.04am GMT More omens More omens - and they aren't good for NYRB: the Red Bulls haven't won any of the five games that Olave missed this season.
  • (14) Type I trauma includes full, detailed memories, "omens," and misperceptions.
  • (15) 7-OMEN and metabolites were measured by high performance liquid chromatography.
  • (16) 7-OMEN was the predominant fluorescent compound in urine, but four metabolites were also seen.
  • (17) Omen: You may or may not be aware that Uruguayan national team often refer to themselves as "Los Charruas", who were an indigenous people in South America.
  • (18) A good omen for the SNP's #indyref #WhitePaper launch?
  • (19) But the omens are not good: Britain has a grim history of divisiveness in education.
  • (20) It's my terrible dirty secret, a disclosure that almost always prompts an "ah, that makes sense", a stigma that brings with it a sense that somehow I am bad, a little Damien from The Omen , because I was the only one.