Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Treated or thought of with great kindness or partiality: the favored child.
- adj. Endowed with special gifts, talents, or advantages.
- adj. Having an appearance of a specified kind. Often used in combination: ill-favored; well-favored.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Featured; looking, etc.: in compounds or phrases: as, a hard-favored man; he is well favored.
- Adorned with a favor; wearing a favor: usually in compounds.
- In organic chemistry, noting that configuration of the atoms or radicals in a compound in which the atoms which have an attraction for each other are brought as close together as possible. Thus of the two configurations for ethylene chlorid,
b is said to be a favored configuration because in it the chlorin and hydrogen atoms are nearer together than in adjective
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness.
- adj. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. preferred above all others and treated with partiality
Examples
“Instead, it urges "flexicurity," a term favored by EU institutions to describe policies that mix liberalized labor markets with the promise of ample unemployment benefits and retraining for workers who get fired.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Coordination Question in Wage-Bargaining Reform
“The figures released by the central bank this week showed that by the middle of this year, 17 percent of Spanish bank loans to construction companies and real estate developers were troubled - or "doubtful," the term favored by the central bank.”
“If "contagion," the term favored by policy analysts, spreads widely, governments are going to have trouble borrowing money and repaying their debts; if governments have trouble repaying their debts, the institutions that own those debts-the already stretched European banks-are in serious difficulty.”
“Myanmar is also known as Burma, a term favored by exiles and dissidents including Suu Kyi.”
“Yet the security gains are "fragile and reversible," to use the phrase favored by U.S. military officials.”
“Of the two, by the way, Wealth of Nations takes the dimmer view of merchantsparadoxically, since this is the title favored by free-enterprise types.”
“Horse blanket" is the term favored by beer cognoscenti.”
“Col. Kolenda chose the term favored by the Pakistanis: "We get lots of reports of miscreant activities," he said.”
“The overall situation in matters of abstraction is triadic (to use the term favored by C.S. Peirce).”
“It is common to describe this as "symbol manipulation" or, to use the term favored by Hofstadter and Dennett, the whole system is a "self-updating representational system"; but these terms are at least a bit misleading since as far as the computer is concerned the symbols don't symbolize anything or represent anything.”
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