favourable

Speech parts

1. favourable - Noun

2. favourable - Adjective

3. favourable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

giving an advantage

presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate

encouraging or approving or pleasing

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Examples

If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Winston Churchill

Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government. Stafford Cripps

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug. Antonio Gramsci

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. Bertrand Russell

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation. Jean-Baptiste Say

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures. J. R. R. Tolkien

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