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Definition: AUGURAL |
AUGURALAdjective1. Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. |
Etymology: Augural \Au"gu*ral\, adjective. [Latin expression auguralis.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AUGURAL |
| Non-English Usage: "AUGURAL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (augural), Spanish (augural). |
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 | Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AUGURAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | paralajmërues (admonitory, cautionary, Herald, monitory, precursory, premonitory, prognostic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | авгурски. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | auguri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | auguralay augural. (various references) prevestitor (augur, foreboding, harbinger, ominous, portentous, precursor, premonitory, prophetic). (various references) предвещающий (portentous, precursory). (various references) auguralni, proročki (fatidical, oracular, prophetic). (various references) augural. (various references) що передвіща", зловісний (bodeful, dire, disastrous, fateful, grim, inauspicious, ominous, oracular, oraculous, portentous, sinister, sinistrous, unlucky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | auguria, auguriis, augurium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AUGURAL": inaugural, postinaugural, preinaugural. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AUGURAL": inaugurals. (additional references) | |
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"AUGURAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agartala, Agarwal, arugula, augera, Augereau, Aughrim, augua, augure, Ougoure. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "AUGURAL" (pronounced 'Au"gu*ral'): Aboral, Accipitral, Adambulacral, Admiral, Ambidextral, Ambulacral, Ammiral, Amphitheatral, Amphoral, Ancestral, Antambulacral, Antemural, Antral, Arbitral, Asymmetral, Auroral, Bicorporal, Bicrural, Bimembral, Binaural, Biventral, Cadastral, Caesural, Caporal, Central, Centumviral, Cesural, Chaparral, Circumlittoral, Cloistral, Commissural, Concho-spiral, Conirostral, Connatural, Contranatural, Counternatural, Crural, Cubo-octahedral, Cultirostral, Curvirostral, Cynosural, Decahedral, Decemviral, Dextral, Dural, Duumviral, Fissirostral, Flexural, Floral, Genitocrural. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arugula. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-l-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: argal, augur, aural, graal, gular, laura, rugal. | |
-3 letters: agar, alar, alga, aura, gala, gaur, guar, guru, luau, raga, ruga. | |
-4 letters: aal, aga, ala, gal, gar, gul, lag, lar, lug, rag, rug, ulu. | |
-5 letters: aa, ag, al, ar, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-l-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: arugulas. | |
+2 letters: inaugural. | |
+3 letters: inaugurals, unarguable, unarguably. | |
+4 letters: equiangular. | |
+5 letters: agricultural, preinaugural, quadrangular. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Sounds 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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