Auspicious vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?
auspicious | ecstasy |
Of good omen; indicating future success.
Conducive to success.
Marked by success; prosperous.
Intense pleasure.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
* Dryden
A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
(obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
* Shakespeare
* Marlowe
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
(medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
As an adjective auspicious
is of good omen; indicating future success.As a proper noun ecstasy is
(slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.auspicious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This is an auspicious day.
Synonyms
* (conducive to success) favourable, favorable, promising, propitious, fortunate, lucky * (marked by success) lucky, fortunateAntonyms
* inauspiciousDerived terms
* auspiciously * auspiciousnessecstasy
English
(wikipedia ecstasy)Alternative forms
* extasyNoun
- This is the very ecstasy of love.
- He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
- like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
- That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
- Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
- (Mayne)