Dictionary

augurous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɑɡəɹəs/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈɔːɡəɹəs/ (UK)
• /ˈɔɡəɹəs/ (General-American)

Etymology

From augur + -ous.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Full of augury; foreboding.
   • The Mikado had gotten the preceding season off to an exhilarating, augurous start. 1994, Gerald Bordman, American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1869–1914, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
   • [S]o feard / The faire-man’d horſes, that they flew, backe, and their chariots turn’d, / Preſaging in their augurous hearts, the labours that they mourn’d / A little after; […] [1611?], Homer, “The XVIII. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 258:
   • The library movement made an augurous start in India but the momentum can only be kept through the concerted efforts of the Indian Library Association, educators, central and state governments, and municipalities, for elevating the status of professional librarian. 1967, Indian Librarian, volume 22, page 77:

Forms

Relateds

augural

Synonyms

fatal · sinister · inauspicate · nefastous · brooding · foreboding · ill-starred · presageful · inauspicious · baleful · bodeful · portentous · ill-boding · boding · divine · dire · omenic · sullen · ominous · portentous · star-crossed · augurous · ill-omened · prodigious · ill-fated · presagious · inauspicious · disastrous