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favorable
[ fey-ver-uh-buhl, feyv-ruh- ]
adjective
- characterized by approval or support; positive:
a favorable report.
- creating or winning favor; pleasing:
to make a favorable impression.
- affording advantage, opportunity, or convenience; advantageous:
a favorable position.
- (of an answer) granting what is desired.
- boding well; propitious:
The signs are favorable for a new start.
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Other Words From
- favor·a·ble·ness noun
- favor·a·bly adverb
- non·favor·a·ble adjective
- non·favor·a·ble·ness noun
- non·favor·a·bly adverb
- over·favor·a·ble adjective
- over·favor·a·ble·ness noun
- over·favor·a·bly adverb
- pre·favor·a·ble adjective
- pre·favor·a·bly adverb
- quasi-favor·a·ble adjective
- quasi-favor·a·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of favorable1
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Example Sentences
Even if you look at that in the most favorable light possible, it was not accurate.
All the while they racked up favorable coverage in the mainstream press, and even more sycophantic mentions in the gay press.
The risk-benefit math becomes less favorable for the older patient.
This is a new spin on a GOP scheme to create a more favorable Republican playing field for the 2016 presidential election.
He signed a commercial deal favorable to South Korea and reached out to Vietnam following recent territorial disputes.
This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
Prima facie, the verdict here is less favorable than in the previous case.
It therefore took under favorable consideration the question of a voluntary clearing system.
And our surroundings at that particular moment were not the most favorable to coherent thought or plausible theory-building.
The last three days hadn't been exactly favorable to a normal state of mind, or well-considered speech.
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