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Favorable   /fˈeɪvərəbəl/  /fˈeɪvrəbəl/   Listen
Favorable

adjective
(Written also favourable)
1.
Encouraging or approving or pleasing.  Synonym: favourable.  "He received a favorable rating" , "Listened with a favorable ear" , "Made a favorable impression"  Antonym: unfavorable.
2.
(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate.  Synonym: favourable.  Antonym: unfavorable.
3.
Presaging or likely to bring good luck.  Synonyms: favourable, golden, lucky, prosperous.  "Lucky stars" , "A prosperous moment to make a decision"
4.
Inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile.  Synonyms: friendly, well-disposed.  "An amicable agreement"
5.
Occurring at a convenient or suitable time.  Synonym: favourable.



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"Favorable" Quotes from Famous Books



... deserted camp, had discovered several cans of gasoline that the raiders had overlooked. They formed sufficient fuel with the picric cakes that Frank still had a supply of, to drive the big aeroplane for several hundred miles if the wind conditions were favorable. ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... that you have kept me at a distance, Frances; that you have left me alone all day; that you seem very tired and unhappy. What I see—yes, what I see—does not, I confess, strike me in a favorable light." ...
— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade

... years an associate judge of the court of common pleas for Geauga county, and had an extensive acquaintance and influence. Mrs. Markham, a genuine daughter of the old Puritan ancestry, dating back to the first landing, a true specimen of the best Yankee woman under favorable circumstances, was a most thoroughly accomplished lady, who had gone into the woods with her young husband, and who shed and exercised a wide and beneficent influence through her sphere. So simple, sweet, natural and judicious ...
— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle

... the reasons of popular acclamation on the restoration of Charles II., and which we cannot consider entirely without force. A state of mind existed in England as favorable to the encroachments of royalty, as, twenty years before, ...
— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and Colleges • John Lord

... that the great terror of the seas had come upon this, the first favorable opportunity. Kidd knew that the house-boat was unguarded; his spies had told him that the members had every one gone to the fight, and he resolved that the time had come to act. He did not know that the Fates had helped to make his vengeance all the more terrible and withering ...
— A House-Boat on the Styx • John Kendrick Bangs


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