augurious
augurious is the alternative form of augurous.
Meaning of augurous
Adjective
augurous (comparative more augurous, superlative most augurous)
- Full of augury; foreboding.
- [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
- Synonyms:
- inauspicious, portentous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding
Forms of augurious
| comparative | more augurious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most augurious |
Origin of augurious
From augury + -ous.
Questions about augurious
- What is augurious the alternative form of?
- Augurious is the alternative form of augurous.
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