propitious

From Anglo-Norman and Old French propicius, from Latin propitius (“favorable, well-disposed, kind”). Compare French propice, Portuguese propício and Spanish propicio.

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈpɪʃəs/, (in General American also) /pɹoʊˈpɪʃəs/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧pi‧tious

propitious (comparative more propitious, superlative most propitious)

1. Favorable; advantageous.

   Synonyms: favorable, advantageous

   Antonym: unpropitious

   propitious weather

2. Characteristic of a good omen.

   Synonyms: auspicious, fortunate, promising

   • 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But counterrevolutions are reversible. Klein devotes much of her book to propitious signs that this can happen — indeed is happening.

3. (archaic) Favorably disposed towards someone.

• unpropitious

• propitiate
• propitiation
• propitiously
• propitiousness

• “propitious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “propitious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “propitious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.