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English Dictionary: favorable |
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2 results for favorable |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- favorable
- adj
- encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable
reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
Synonym(s): favorable, favourable Antonym(s): unfavorable, unfavourable
- (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Synonym(s): favorable, favourable Antonym(s): unfavorable, unfavourable
- presaging or likely to bring good luck; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
Synonym(s): golden, favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous
- inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile; "a government friendly to our interests"; "an amicable agreement"
Synonym(s): friendly, favorable, well-disposed
- occurring at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"
Synonym(s): favorable, favourable
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Favorable \Fa"vor*a*ble\, a. [Written also {favourable}.] [F.
favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr.
favor. See {Favor}, n.]
1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind;
propitious; friendly.
Lend favorable ears to our request. --Shak.
Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. --Ps.
lxxxv. 1.
2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
advantageous; convenient.
A place very favorable for the making levies of men.
--Clarendon.
The temper of the climate, favorable to generation,
health, and long life. --Sir W.
Temple.
3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] --Spenser. --
{Fa"vora*ble*ness}, n. -- {Fa"vor*a*bly}, sdv.
The faborableness of the present times to all
extertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke.
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