Auspicious and Ruinous

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Auspicious adjective - Pointing toward a happy outcome.

Usage example: began the season with an auspicious win against their strongest football rival

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Ruinous is an antonym for auspicious.

Nearby Words: auspice, auspiciously

Ruinous adjective - Bringing about ruin or misfortune.

Usage example: a ruinous miscalculation of the financial markets left them bankrupt

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Auspicious is an antonym for ruinous.

Nearby Words: ruin, ruined, ruination, ruining, ruinously

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