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Definition of Favourable
1. Adjective. Encouraging or approving or pleasing. "Made a favorable impression"
Also: Affirmative, Affirmatory, Complimentary, Good
Similar to: Affirmative, Approbative, Approbatory, Approving, Plausive, Indulgent
Antonyms: Unfavorable
2. Adjective. (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate. "The days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Also: Propitious
Similar to: Following
Derivative terms: Favorableness, Favourableness
Antonyms: Unfavorable
3. Adjective. Occurring at a convenient or suitable time. "An opportune time to receive guests"
4. Adjective. Presaging or likely to bring good luck. "A prosperous moment to make a decision"
Similar to: Propitious
Derivative terms: Favorableness, Favourableness, Luckiness
Definition of Favourable
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Favourable
Literary usage of Favourable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"I would only lay particular stress upon the favourable action of ... improvement in
all symptoms as to give rise to the hope of a favourable termination. ..."
2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... their Effects— Methodical and Unconscious Selection—Unknown Origin of our
Domestic Productions —Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection. ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1840)
"THAT THE NOTIONS OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONS ON GOVERNMENT ARE NATURALLY favourable TO
THE CONCENTRATION OF POWER. THE notion of secondary powers, placed between ..."
4. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1789)
"no incompetent judges, entertain a more favourable opinion of the Attic dialect.
... favourable ..."
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