augurous

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augurous

/ˈɔːɡəɹəs/ UK
/ˈɔɡəɹəs/ US
/ˈɑɡəɹəs/ cot caught merger

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From augur + -ous.

adjective more augurous · most augurous · augurious

uncommon 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; […]
Similar: inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding

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@misc{augurous_2026,
  title = {augurous},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/augurous},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}