Definition of propitious

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Propitious (a.) Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity..

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Averted :: Averted (a.) Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious..
Propitious :: Propitious (a.) Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze..
Propitiation :: Propitiation (n.) The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
Nasty :: Nasty (superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky..
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.
Favorless :: Favorless (a.) Unpropitious; unfavorable.
Portend :: Portend (v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs..
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors..
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..
Sullen :: Sullen (a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..
-ate :: -ate () As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to)..
Present :: Present (a.) Favorably attentive; propitious.
Disaster :: Disaster (n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent..
Ill-timed :: Ill-timed (a.) Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time..
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..
Auspicious :: Auspicious (a.) Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
Favor :: Favor (n.) The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending..
Propitiatory :: Propitiatory (a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice..
Kindliness :: Kindliness (n.) Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season..
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