FAVORABLE

advantageous, favorable, favourable

(adjective) giving an advantage; “a contract advantageous to our country”; “socially advantageous to entertain often”

golden, favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous

(adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome; “a favorable time to ask for a raise”; “lucky stars”; “a prosperous moment to make a decision”

favorable, favourable

(adjective) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; “the days were fair and the winds were favorable”

favorable, favourable

(adjective) encouraging or approving or pleasing; “a favorable reply”; “he received a favorable rating”; “listened with a favorable ear”; “made a favorable impression”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Adjective

favorable (comparative more favorable, superlative most favorable)

(American spelling) Alternative form of favourable

Source: Wiktionary

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Fa"vor*a*ble, a. [Written also favourable.] Etym: [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.]

1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1.

2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple.

3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] Spenser.

– Fa"vora*ble*ness, n.

– Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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