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Definition of Favorable

1. Adjective. Encouraging or approving or pleasing. "Made a favorable impression"

2. Adjective. (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate. "The days were fair and the winds were favorable"

3. Adjective. Presaging or likely to bring good luck. "A prosperous moment to make a decision"

4. Adjective. Inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile. "An amicable agreement"

5. Adjective. Occurring at a convenient or suitable time. "An opportune time to receive guests"

Definition of Favorable

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

Definition of Favorable

1. Adjective. pleasing, encouraging or approving ¹

2. Adjective. useful or helpful ¹

3. Adjective. convenient or at a suitable time; opportune ¹

4. Adjective. auspicious or lucky ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Favorable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Favorable

faveolate faver faves favest favic chandeliers favicon favicons favid favillous favisms

favonian favor favor'd favorabilities favorability favorable favorable position favorable reception favorableness favorablenesses

favorably favored favoredness favorer favorers favoress favoring favoringly favorise favorises

Literary usage of Favorable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"tinctly favorable to it, the ratio of rise to fall being six to one. Adaptation on the other hand had an unfavorable effect nearly as often as a favorable ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"The effect of associations was favorable, though not so markedly as with violet tint, ... Associations were favorable, producing five rises to one fall. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The report is regarded as very favorable to the use of anti-toxin. There is no question but what the reported percentage of mortality is much lower than ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In the beginning of 1801, when the disastrous rupture between North and South liad occurred, and war wan imminent, the United States had a most favorable ..."

5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1863)
"THAT THE OPINIONS OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONS ABOUT GOVERNMENT ARE NATURALLY Favorable TO THE CONCENTRATION OF POWER. THE notion of secondary powers, ..."

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