【学个词 auspicious】auspicious- adj. 预示成功的;有利于成功的;兴盛的;幸运的;吉祥的
Definition
1: showing or suggesting that future success is likely : PROPITIOUS
//made an auspicious beginning
//Such an auspicious start might have brought only honor and further triumph, but a witches' brew of scientific contentiousness, the temper of the times, and quirks in Dubois's own psyche soon derailed any pleasant development and turned Dubois's bounty into bitterness.
— Stephen Jay Gould
2: attended by good auspices : FORTUNATE, PROSPEROUS
//an auspicious year
//… a festival that takes place during the hottest months of spring, just before the monsoon rains, and that is considered an auspicious time for weddings.
— Cynthia Gorney
//In days of old, seers entered a trance state and then informed anxious seekers what kind of mood the gods were in, and whether this was an auspicious time to begin a journey, get married, or start a war.
— Harvey Cox
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat
Antonyms
bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious
Examples
//His acclaimed first novel was an auspicious debut.
//told him she couldn't dance with him just then, but her auspicious smile encouraged him to ask again later