advantageous, beneficial, bright with promise, expedient, fitting, happy, kindly-disposed, of happy portent, providential, suitable, well-disposed
Definitionadj. presenting favorable circumstances
Last update: September 12, 2015
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This is not the propitious time to grow wheat. [adjective]
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These are very propitious circumstances for a third party, of which Canada has at least two. [adjective]
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An atmosphere is thus created which is highly propitious for the intriguers and political horse traders grouped around Journal du Peuple. [adjective]
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"A propitious oracle." [adjective]
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There are no trees to obstruct the genial fire from the sky, which the Germans deem so needful to render their vintages propitious. [adjective]
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It is mostly a case of "sour grapes," and he only waits the propitious combination of circumstances which shall permit him to become a possessor of a motor-car himself. [adjective]
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He avoided the company of either of his brothers, from an idea that the Dwarf was most propitious to those who visited him alone. [adjective]
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"To-morrow--and the next day," he said, counting aloud, "then, to speak in the Roman style, if the sea-gods be propitious, the consul arrives." [adjective]
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The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent. [adjective]
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