| favorable | (adj) encouraging or approving or pleasing, Syn. favourable, Ant. unfavorable, Example: a favorable reply; he received a favorable rating; listened with a favorable ear; made a favorable impression |
| favorable | (adj) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate, Syn. favourable, Ant. unfavorable, Example: the days were fair and the winds were favorable |
| favorable | (adj) occurring at a convenient or suitable time, Syn. favourable, Example: an opportune time to receive guests |
| favorableness | (n) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome, Syn. profitableness, positivity, favourableness, positiveness, advantageousness, Ant. unfavorableness |
| favorably | (adv) showing approval, Syn. favourably, Ant. unfavorably, Example: he reviewed the play favorably |
| Favorable | a. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ] A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ] The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ] -- The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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