1500-1600Latinpropitius, from petere ‘to try to find or get’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
The most propitious time for an attack was lost.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
But this is a propitious moment.
Conditions in the aftermath of the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development in countryside and city alike.
During the next few weeks my fortunes took a more propitious turn.
I continued, taking advantage of this propitious moment to ask.
The dynamics of partnership bargaining are hardly propitious for the specific kinds of cooperation that marriage and family require.
The times are only moderately propitious for establishing a memorable record.
This isn't a propitious start for him, poor devil.
You see, I was on my astrological cusp on Monday, it wasn't at all propitious for me.
good and likely to bring good results: a propitious momentpropitious for Conditions after the 1905 revolution were propitious for stable development.—propitiously adverb