Definition of propitious

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Propitious (a.) Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze..

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Foul :: Foul (superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc..
Happiness :: Happiness (n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.
Friend :: Friend (n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution..
Kindliness :: Kindliness (n.) Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season..
Propitiatory :: Propitiatory (a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice..
Luckless :: Luckless (a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid..
Portend :: Portend (v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs..
Favor :: Favor (n.) Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
Propice :: Propice (a.) Fit; propitious.
Propitiation :: Propitiation (n.) The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
Adverse :: Adverse (a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse..
Good :: Good (superl.) Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto..
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors..
Disfavorably :: Disfavorably (adv.) Unpropitiously.
Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence..
Ill-timed :: Ill-timed (a.) Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time..
Favorable :: Favorable (n.) Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Propitiate :: Propitiate (v. t.) To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Malign :: Malign (a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets..
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