favorable

Speech parts

1. favorable - Noun

2. favorable - Adjective

3. favorable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.

Beautiful; well-favored.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

advantageous golden right good lucky positive appropriate suitable friendly encouraging beneficial helpful pleasant prosperous approving
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Antonyms

unfavorable feller not deathly squally critical
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Related terms

favor favorite favorably

Phrases with the word

highly favorable favorable outcome under the least favorable circumstances under the least favorable conditions under the most favorable circumstances favorable salutary

Examples

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. John Rawls

If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. John Harsanyi

OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Ambrose Bierce

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. George Santayana

Be in readiness for favorable winds. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

favor favor bank favorability favorable appearance favorable circumstance favorable circumstances