auspicious

Preposition: of

start: We didn't get to the most auspicious of starts with Chetan falling early on.

Preposition: for

war: Essenes spent their days professing to be pacific when they were looking for signs auspicious for a holy war.

Modifies a noun

• debut: On the big screen, Jones is poised to make an auspicious debut.
• occasion: In the houses, mango leaves are tied to the doorways to mark the auspicious occasion.
• beginning: Neither the newly established Irish Free State nor the state of Northern Ireland had an auspicious beginning.
• symbol: Other faint incision marks on the feet reveal more auspicious symbols.
• start: An auspicious start for the new Bedford Town Band.
• moment: This is an auspicious moment for us, it will allow us to go from strength to strength.

Modifying Another Word

• truly: We cannot contemplate with equanimity anything less than a truly auspicious beginning having the good wishes of everyone concerned.
• particularly: The cars were not selling well, not a particularly auspicious start for a special edition.
• highly: Stein Winge âIn a highly auspicious house debut, Matthew Best has taken over the title role from Willard White.
• very: Click to enlarge The marriage did not get off to a very auspicious start.
• not: To say the least, it is not auspicious.
• especially: It is especially auspicious to visit all eight in one pilgrimage.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: For example, the use of the color red is considered auspicious in China.
• seem: It seemed more auspicious than a place marked with a pentacle, and less numerous than the places not marked at all.