Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds.
- adj. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis.
- adj. Manifesting approval; commendatory: a favorable report.
- adj. Winning approval; pleasing: a favorable impression.
- adj. Granting what has been desired or requested: a favorable reply.
- adj. Indulgent or partial: listened with a favorable ear.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Kind; friendly; well inclined; manifesting good will or partiality.
- Conducive; contributing; tending to promote: as, conditions favorable to population.
- Convenient; advantageous; affording facilities: as, a favorable position; favorable weather.
- Having a pleasing favor or appearance; well favored; beautiful.
- Synonyms Auspicious, willing, inclined (toward).
- 2 and 3. Fit, adapted, suitable.
Wiktionary
- adj. pleasing, encouraging or approving
- adj. useful or helpful
- adj. convenient or at a suitable time; opportune
- adj. auspicious or lucky
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
- adj. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
- adj. obsolete Beautiful; well-favored.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile
- adj. (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
- adj. encouraging or approving or pleasing
- adj. occurring at a convenient or suitable time
- adj. presaging or likely to bring good luck
Examples
“French authorities are looking for what they call a favorable resolution to the case against move director Roman Polanski.”
“The National Council of La Raza said renewed interest from the president as well as the shift of power in Congress has created what it calls favorable conditions for amnesty legislation.”
“And that unconsumed surplus, sold abroad, becomes what we call our favorable balance of trade.”
“One company, Aetna, has voluntarily agreed to engage in the third party review, with what she described as favorable results.”
“The man behind the plan, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, appeared before parliament on Tuesday, where some lawmakers questioned the legality of the proposed contracts and what they called favorable terms for the foreign companies.”
“Koncz was also with Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 knockouts) on Thursday when they had what he called a favorable, two-hour meeting with his promoter, Top Rank's Bob Arum, during their negotiations for the megafight with the unbeaten Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs).”
“Regarding Alaska, big amphibious invasions were a new, tentative thing that worked in favorable weather by sheer force of numbers only, and barely then.”
“The author ascribes this to females lacking the power of males and resorting to depressive effects to gain favorable behavioral changes from the people around them.”
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Because crashes are already so rare, though, this expense is not favorable from a cost-benefit analysis.”
Health Care and Moral Values, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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