favorable
[fey-ver-uh-buh l, feyv-ruh-]
- 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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Origin of favorable
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Examples from the Web for favorable
Contemporary Examples
Even if you look at that in the most favorable light possible, it was not accurate.
(Referenda tend to be expensive, rife with misinformation, and favorable to extreme positions).
Just 39 percent give Democrats a favorable rating and just 33 percent do the same for Republicans.
If most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile.
Compliments Are Nice, but Enough With the Cormac McCarthy ComparisonsWilliam Giraldi
October 21, 2014
In October 2001, an ABC poll found that 47 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Islam.
Historical Examples
He left the office, not a little elated at his favorable reception.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
My mind was made up to "take to the woods" on the first favorable opportunity.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson
Forthwith, Burke set out to make the most of this favorable opportunity.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Heyward was not slow to confirm an opinion that was so favorable to his own pretensions.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared.
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
Word Origin and History for favorable
adj.
mid-14c., from Old French favorable "well-disposed, favorable, partial," from Latin favorabilis "favored, in favor," from favor (see favor (n.)). Related: Favorably.
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