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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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..
Favor :: Favor (n.) To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards..
Infaust :: Infaust (a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.
Propitious :: Propitious (a.) Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity..
Fair :: Fair (superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day..
Friendly :: Friendly (a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale..
Propitious :: Propitious (a.) Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze..
Sullen :: Sullen (a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors..
Averted :: Averted (a.) Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious..
Propitiatory :: Propitiatory (a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice..
Portend :: Portend (v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs..
Luckless :: Luckless (a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid..
Ill-timed :: Ill-timed (a.) Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time..
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence..
Malign :: Malign (a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets..
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..
Jonah :: "Jonah (n.) The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious..
Propice :: Propice (a.) Fit; propitious.
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