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English Dictionary: favourable	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
favourable 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 occurring at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests" Synonym(s): favorable, favourable 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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Favorable \Fa"vorable\, 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"vorableness}, n. -- {Fa"vorably}, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke.