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Pronunciation: [pɹəpˈɪʃəs] (IPA)

Propitious is a positive adjective that is often used to describe a favorable or advantageous situation or circumstance. Some synonyms for propitious include auspicious, favorable, promising, optimistic, encouraging, fortunate, and good. These words convey a sense of hope, positivity, and optimism, and can be used to describe a wide variety of situations, such as a propitious time to start a new business venture, a propitious opportunity for personal growth, or a propitious moment in history. Whether used to describe a person, place, or thing, these synonyms all suggest that things are looking up and the future is bright.

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What are the opposite words for propitious?

The antonyms for the word "propitious" are unfavorable, unpromising, unlucky, disadvantageous, and adverse. Unfavorable indicates something that is not beneficial or supportive. Unpromising suggests something that does not appear to have a good chance of success. Unlucky implies something that is characterized by misfortune or bad luck. Disadvantageous means something that is detrimental, disadvantageous, or harmful. Adverse suggests something that is hostile or works against one's interests. It is important to note that using antonyms carefully is essential as they lend an opposite meaning to the original word, which can drastically change the context of a sentence.

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Usage examples for Propitious

Then, too, the time was not propitious.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
The wheat was everywhere standing tall and green, and the season had been on the whole so propitious that from bitter experience they almost expected a change.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
In anticipation of so propitious a result, we had provided a banquet for Bench and Bar.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs

Famous quotes with Propitious

  • May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
    Zebulon Pike
  • The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
    Walter Scott
  • Confronted, when the weather is fine and I am in propitious emotional circumstances, with certain landscapes, certain works of art, certain human beings, I know, for the time being, that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world. On other occasions, skies and destiny being inclement, I am no less immediately certain of the malignant impersonality of an uncaring universe. Every human being has had similar experiences. This being so, the sensible thing to do would be to accept the facts and frame a metaphysic to fit them. But with that talent for doing the wrong thing, that genius for perversity, so characteristically human, men have preferred, especially in recent times, to take another course. They have either denied the existence of these psychological facts; or if they have admitted them, have done so only to condemn as evil all such experiences as cannot be reconciled in a logical system with whatever particular class of experiences they have chosen, arbitrarily, to regard as "true" and morally valuable. Every man tries to pretend that he is consistently one kind of person and does his best consistently to worship one kind of God. And this despite the fact that he experiences diversity and actually feels himself in contact with a variety of divinities.
    Aldous Huxley
  • Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
    George Santayana
  • Olive and laurel binds her golden hair: Wherever shines this native of the skies, Unnumber'd charms and recent graces rise. Muse! bow propitious while my pen relates How pour her armies through a thousand gates,
    Phillis Wheatley

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