| 例句 |
propitiousadjective having qualities which inspire hopethe success of the first big movie in May was a propitious start for the summer season of blockbusters auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothingassured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitatingbeamish, bullish, eupepticfavorable, good bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious cheerless, comfortlessdoubtful, dubious, uncertainbearish, grim, negative, unfavorablefunereal, glum, gray(also grey), miserable, wretched pointing toward a happy outcomea propitious time for starting a business auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providentialadvantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious unfortunate, unhappy, unluckycalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinousbaleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening favorable, auspicious, propitious mean pointing toward a happy outcome.favorable implies that the persons involved are approving or helpful or that the circumstances are advantageous.favorable weather conditions auspicious applies to something taken as a sign or omen promising success before or at the start of an event.an auspicious beginning propitious may also apply to beginnings but often implies a continuing favorable condition.a propitious time for starting a business in the 15th century |