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advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, encouraging, favorable, friendly, good, gracious, helpful, kindly, opportune

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pro·pi·tious

[pruh-pish-uh

s] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.

2.	indicative of favor; auspicious: propitious omens.

3.	favorably inclined; disposed to bestow favors or forgive: propitious gods.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME propicius < L propitius favorably inclined, propitious, prob. equiv. to pro- pro-¹ + -pit-, comb. form of petere to head for, resort to, solicit + -ius adj. suffix; see -ous

]

—Related forms

pro·pi·tious·ly, adverb

pro·pi·tious·ness, noun

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pro·pi·tious (prə-pĭsh'əs) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious. See Synonyms at favorable.
Kindly; gracious.

[Middle English propicius, from Old French propicieux, from Latin propitius; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]

pro·pi'tious·ly adv., pro·pi'tious·ness n.

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propitious
adjective
presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success; "propitious omens"; "propitious gales speeded us along"; "a propitious alignment of planets for space exploration" [ant: unpropitious]

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Propitious

Aus*pi"cious\, a. [See Auspice.]

1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.

Auspicious union of order and freedom. --Macaulay.

2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious chief." --Dryden.

3. Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." --Shak. "Auspicious gales." --Pope.

Syn: See Propitious. -- Aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Aus*pi"cious*ness, n.

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