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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Ill-timed :: Ill-timed (a.) Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time..
Evil :: Evil (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days..
Jonah :: "Jonah (n.) The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious..
Present :: Present (a.) Favorably attentive; propitious.
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..
Infaust :: Infaust (a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.
Portend :: Portend (v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs..
Friendly :: Friendly (a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale..
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..
Impropitious :: Impropitious (a.) Unpropitious; unfavorable.
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; -- often with on; as, to smile on one's labors..
Propitiation :: Propitiation (n.) The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
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..
Unfavorable :: Unfavorable (a.) Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging.
Disastrous :: Disastrous (a.) Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
Smile :: Smile (v. i.) Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence..
Propitiatory :: Propitiatory (a.) Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice..
Propitious :: Propitious (a.) Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze..
Disaster :: Disaster (n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent..
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..
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