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FAVOURABLE
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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:
favourableness (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:
favourableness (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)
Derivation:
favourableness (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)
Derivation:
favourableness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)
Context examples:
“I am glad your experience is so favourable,” I returned.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He said that in all his life he had never had so favourable a run.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
You would like to go back to the land, which is a favourable place for your kind of piggishness.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have just returned from a small scouting expedition, and everything is favourable.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The morning was rather favourable, though it had rained all night, as the clouds were then dispersing across the sky, and the sun frequently appeared.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
As he said this, she could easily see that he had no doubt of a favourable answer.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
We'll have favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat, to roll in, to play duck and drake with ever after.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is highly dynamic in nature, and its function can change to help protect the growing fetus when conditions become less favourable for its development, for example through a lack of nutrients or oxygen or when the mother is stressed.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
However, when our turn came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he might have a private word with us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They made their appearance in the Lower Rooms; and here fortune was more favourable to our heroine.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
