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adjective

1) Entertaining favoring thoughts or feelings; kindle disposed; gracious; as, a propitious deity.

2) Attended by favorable circumstance or prospects; auspicious; favorable; as, propitious gales.

[Latin propitius, a word used in augury, from pro = forward, + peto = to fly, to seek.]

Related Forms: propitiously adverb, propitiousness noun

Synonyms: auspicious, benign, favorable, friendly, gracious, kindly, merciful.

That which is auspicious is of favorable omen; that which is propitious is of favoring influence or tendency; as, an auspicious morning; a propitious breeze. Propitious applies to persons, implying kind disposition and favorable inclinations, especially toward the suppliant; auspicious is not used of persons.

Antonyms: adverse, antagonistic, forbidding, harsh, hostile, ill-disposed, inauspicious, repellent, unfavorable, unfriendly, unpropitious.