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FAVORABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giving an advantage
Example:
socially advantageous to entertain often
Synonyms:
advantageous; favorable; favourable
Classified under:
Similar:
beneficial; good (promoting or enhancing well-being)
plus; positive (involving advantage or good)
discriminatory; preferential (manifesting partiality)
Also:
expedient (serving to promote your interest)
opportune (suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose)
profitable (yielding material gain or profit)
Derivation:
favorableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
Example:
a prosperous moment to make a decision
Synonyms:
favorable; favourable; golden; lucky; prosperous
Classified under:
Similar:
propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)
Derivation:
favorableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
Example:
the days were fair and the winds were favorable
Synonyms:
favorable; favourable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
following (in the desired direction)
Also:
propitious (presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success)
Antonym:
unfavorable ((of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose)
Derivation:
favorableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Encouraging or approving or pleasing
Example:
made a favorable impression
Synonyms:
favorable; favourable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
affirmative; approbative; approbatory; approving; plausive (expressing or manifesting praise or approval)
indulgent (being favorably inclined)
Also:
affirmative; affirmatory (affirming or giving assent)
complimentary (conveying or resembling a compliment)
good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Antonym:
unfavorable (not encouraging or approving or pleasing)
Derivation:
favorableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)
Context examples:
The most clinically favorable response recorded from the start of the study treatment until the end of treatment.
(Best Overall Response, NCI Thesaurus)
Mild hypotonia that usually appears early in infancy and has a favorable outcome.
(Benign Congenital Hypotonia, NCI Thesaurus)
Pineocytoma generally has a relatively favorable prognosis.
(Pineocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
We must all bow to you, and try to get a favorable word, must we?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It generally affects young adults and has a favorable prognosis.
(Central Neurocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
Any agent having a favorable effect on the function of the heart.
(Cardiotonic Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients with this type of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma have a more favorable outcome, with a 5-year survival rate of 60% and a median survival of 10 years. — 2004
(Germinal Center B-Cell-Like Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Prognosis is favorable following surgical resection of the ovarian mass.
(Meigs Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
Children who do not have metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis usually have a favorable clinical outcome when treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy.
(Pancreatoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The prognosis is more favorable compared to conventional pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
(Pancreatic Medullary Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
