Favorable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Favorable \Fa"vor*a*ble\ (f[=a]"v[~e]r*[.a]*b'l), a. [Written
     also {favourable}.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored,
     popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See {Favor}, n.]
     1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind;
        propitious; friendly.
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              Lend favorable ears to our request.   --Shak.
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              Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. --Ps.
                                                    lxxxv. 1.
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     2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
        advantageous; convenient.
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              A place very favorable for the making levies of men.
                                                    --Clarendon.
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              The temper of the climate, favorable to generation,
              health, and long life.                --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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     3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] --Spenser. --
        {Fa"vora*ble*ness}, n. -- {Fa"vor*a*bly}, adv.
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              The favorableness of the present times to all
              exertions in the cause of liberty.    --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  favorable
       adj 1: very favorable or advantageous; "a golden opportunity" [syn:
               {golden}]
       2: encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply";
          "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a
          favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression" [syn: {favourable}]
          [ant: {unfavorable}]
       3: (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the
          days were fair and the winds were favorable" [syn: {favourable}]
          [ant: {unfavorable}]
       4: favorably disposed; not antagonistic; "a government
          favorable to our interests" [syn: {well-disposed}]
       5: tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are
          auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable
          time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous
          moment to make a decision" [syn: {auspicious}, {encouraging},
           {favourable}, {lucky}, {prosperous}]
       6: at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to
          receive guests" [syn: {favourable}, {opportune}]
       7: granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable
          reply"; "a positive answer" [syn: {positive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  200 Moby Thesaurus words for "favorable":
     accommodating, accommodative, accordant, acquiescent, advantageous,
     advisable, advocating, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing,
     alacritous, amenable, amiable, amicable, approbatory, appropriate,
     approving, ardent, assenting, auspicious, backing, becoming,
     befitting, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant,
     bon, bonny, brave, braw, bright, bright with promise, brotherly,
     bueno, capital, cheering, cogent, commendable, commendatory,
     compliable, compliant, complimentary, congenial, congruous,
     consentient, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, decent,
     desirable, dexter, disposed, docile, eager, elegant, encouraging,
     endorsing, enthusiastic, estimable, excellent, expedient, fain,
     fair, famous, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favoring,
     feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate,
     forward, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, fructuous,
     full of promise, game, golden, good, goodly, grand, grateful,
     gratifying, happy, harmonious, healthful, healthy, helpful,
     helping, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inspiring,
     inspiriting, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, laudable, laudatory,
     likely, looking up, lucky, meet, minded, neighborlike, neighborly,
     nice, noble, nothing loath, of good omen, of happy portent,
     of promise, opportune, peaceable, permissive, pleasant, pleasing,
     pleasurable, pleasureful, pliant, politic, positive, praiseful,
     predisposed, pregnant of good, pro, profitable, promising, prompt,
     prone, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, quick,
     ratifying, ready, ready and willing, reassuring, receptive,
     recommendable, recommendatory, regal, responsive, right, ripe,
     royal, salutary, sanctioning, seasonable, seemly, simpatico,
     sisterly, skillful, sociable, sortable, sound, splendid,
     submissive, suitable, supporting, supportive, sympathetic,
     sympathique, timely, to be desired, toward, tractable, ungrudging,
     unhostile, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, useful, valid,
     very good, virtuous, welcome, well-affected, well-disposed,
     well-inclined, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant,
     well-timed, white, wholesome, willed, willing, willinghearted,
     wise, worthwhile, zealous