propitious | Definition of propitious

Synonyms and Antonyms of propitious

1 having qualities which inspire hope

the success of the first big movie in May was a propitious start for the summer season of blockbusters

Synonyms of propitious

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat

Words Related to propitious

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good

Near Antonyms of propitious

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched

Antonyms of propitious

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 pointing toward a happy outcome

a propitious time for starting a business

Synonyms of propitious

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising

Words Related to propitious

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary

Near Antonyms of propitious

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening

Antonyms of propitious

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious