favorable
fa·vor·able (fā′vər ə bəl)
adjective
- approving or commending
- advantageous
- pleasing or desirable a favorable impression
Etymology: ME < OFr < L favorabilis
favorable
modif.
Winning favor
pleasing, agreeable, desirable, welcome; see pleasant 2.Displaying suitable or promising qualities
advantageous, propitious, auspicious, convenient, beneficial, helpful, promising, boding well; see also helpful 1, hopeful 2.Commendatory
approving, commending, positive, approbative, approbatory, assenting, agreeing, recommendatory, complimentary, acclamatory, well-disposed, in favor of, agreeable, in one's favor, affirmative.
favorable applies to that which is distinctly helpful or advantageous in gaining an end a favorable climate for citrus fruits; auspicious refers to something regarded as a good omen of some undertaking he made an auspicious debut; propitious is now usually applied to a circumstance or a time that appears favorable for doing or beginning something a propitious moment
Preposition: for
- formation: This evolution scheme of Baikal outlets proves the large-amplitude changes of the lake level favorable for the formation of high lacustrine terraces.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- create: Progress means breaking through fields where chance holds sway by creating new conditions more favorable to our purposes.
- find: Did this to search for a more direct current, but found none so favorable as the one we are now in.
- make: Also, many problems with Chlorine containing solvents have been found ( specifically the ozone layer ) which makes this process somewhat less favorable.
Modifies a noun
- prognosis: CONCLUSIONS: The study confirms that PXA is an astrocytic tumor with a relatively favorable prognosis.
- ranking: By including meaningful content on your website, you should receive more favorable rankings in the major search engines.
- impression: To secure the position, you will need to create a favorable impression during the interview.
- condition: Climate change would create favorable conditions for growth in insect populations.
- outcome: They generally have a favorable cognitive outcome, compared with the general population.
- circumstance: Hence the probability of favorable circumstances for a given cylinder should be much less than 16 % .
Modifying Another Word
- highly: Social activities in regard to professional and family are highly favorable, and if you can combine the two, so much the better.
- generally: During this period the press was generally favorable to the Civil Rights Movement.
- very: He has been very favorable to us in years past.
- not: The weather on 10 September was not favorable for anomalous propagation.
- energetically: This is most energetically favorable where there is no pre-existing order in the water that requires destruction.
- quite: The evidence proves to be quite favorable for the Markov switching model.
Used with adjective complement
- become: The whole perspective of development would become incomparably more favorable.
- consider: Although the metastatic rate in this series was 27 % , the prognosis is considered much more favorable than that of other hepatic malignancies.
- look: If we won we might be tempted to place another bet, especially if the odds looked favorable.
- seem: The conditions at Nauheim seemed favorable, and they lingered there until well into September.
