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Favorable

Favorable Meaning & Definition
Favorable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Favorable?

[adj] granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable reply"; "a positive answer"
[adj] very favorable or advantageous; "a golden opportunity"
[adj] tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
[adj] at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests"
[adj] (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
[adj] encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
[adj] favorably disposed; not antagonistic; "a government favorable to our interests"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Favorable: advantageous | affirmative | affirmatory | approbative | approbatory | approving | auspicious | convenient | encouraging | favourable | following(a) | friendly | golden | indulgent | lucky | opportune | plausive | pleasing | positive | propitious | prosperous | well-disposed

Related Terms | Find terms related to Favorable: accommodating | accommodative | accordant | acquiescent | advantageous | advisable | advocating | affirmative | agreeable | agreeing | alacritous | amenable | amiable | amicable | approbatory | appropriate | approving | ardent | assenting | auspicious | backing | becoming | befitting | beneficent | beneficial | benevolent | benign | benignant | bon | bonny | brave | braw | bright | bright with promise | brotherly | bueno | capital | cheering | cogent | commendable | commendatory | compliable | compliant | complimentary | congenial | congruous | consentient | consenting | content | convenient | cooperative | decent | desirable | dexter | disposed | docile | eager | elegant | encouraging | endorsing | enthusiastic | estimable | excellent | expedient | fain | fair | famous | favorably disposed | favorably inclined | favoring | feasible | felicitous | fine | fit | fitten | fitting | fortunate | forward | fraternal | friendlike | friendly | fructuous | full of promise | game | golden | good | goodly | grand | grateful | gratifying | happy | harmonious | healthful | healthy | helpful | helping | in the mind | in the mood | inclined | inspiring | inspiriting | kind | kindly | kindly-disposed | laudable | laudatory | likely | looking up | lucky | meet | minded | neighborlike | neighborly | nice | noble | nothing loath | of good omen | of happy portent | of promise | opportune | peaceable | permissive | pleasant | pleasing | pleasurable | pleasureful | pliant | politic | positive | praiseful | predisposed | pregnant of good | pro | profitable | promising | prompt | prone | proper | propitious | prosperous | providential | quick | ratifying | ready | ready and willing | reassuring | receptive | recommendable | recommendatory | regal | responsive | right | ripe | royal | salutary | sanctioning | seasonable | seemly | simpatico | sisterly | skillful | sociable | sortable | sound | splendid | submissive | suitable | supporting | supportive | sympathetic | sympathique | timely | to be desired | toward | tractable | ungrudging | unhostile | unloath | unrefusing | unreluctant | useful | valid | very good | virtuous | welcome | well-affected | well-disposed | well-inclined | well-intentioned | well-meaning | well-meant | well-timed | white | wholesome | willed | willing | willinghearted | wise | worthwhile | zealous

See Also | complimentary | good

Favorable In Webster's Dictionary

\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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