What's the difference between auspicious and prosperous?

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.

Prosperous


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
  • (a.) Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (2) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
  • (3) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
  • (4) Kirkby is not a particularly prosperous town,” says Matt Donnelly, 27.
  • (5) Today we vote for reforms that will allow us to build a stronger Fifa so football can prosper in the long run and so the events of the last months will never happen again,” he added.
  • (6) "King Hamad understands that Bahrain cannot prosper if he rules by repression," the US ambassador reported in December 2009 .
  • (7) If Davos is a closed shop for the wealthy and powerful elites who caused today’s global inequality, it won’t come up with the answers needed for a more fair and prosperous future for all the world’s workers and their families.
  • (8) I want to spread prosperity to every corner of our country.
  • (9) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
  • (10) The Conservative peer and chancellor of the University of Oxford took the view – rightly – two decades ago that Hong Kong’s prosperity was underpinned by a free and plural society.
  • (11) "I look forward to working together for the future prosperity of my country," she was quoted as saying.
  • (12) These projects served the broader purpose of European integration, but they overlooked critical flaws in the architecture of monetary union that need to be decisively addressed so that the euro fulfils its promise of economic prosperity and prevents Europe from slipping even more into division and discontent.
  • (13) In his time away, Alwash had married an American, and prospered as a partner in a engineering company.
  • (14) I would say we need to make some difficult decisions and therefore austerity now and prosperity later."
  • (15) She added: This is about the European Union, in our neighbourhood actually working with the people and politicians in Ukraine to try and ensure a stable and prosperous future for all of them.
  • (16) I think that’s why 70% of the public now supports public ownership … the passengers pay a premium for privatisation.” For Cash, the short changing of passengers to benefit a few shareholders is symptomatic of the current regime – austerity for the many and prosperity for the few.
  • (17) Local unemployment is around 3.7% and Chorley, with its 300 farms and old families, is quietly prosperous.
  • (18) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
  • (19) The old divisions between rich and poor countries, the climate polluters of the past and the rising economies now spewing out carbon in their rush to prosperity, were wearing away, they said.
  • (20) We're all human beings, we all wish for prosperity, we all wish for better health for our children, better education for our children; for better standards of living and quality of life regardless of where we live, and that is really what unites us.