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fa·vor·able (vər ə bəl)

adjective

  1. approving or commending
  2. advantageous
  3. pleasing or desirable a favorable impression

Etymology: ME < OFr < L favorabilis

favorable Related Forms
fa·vor·able·ness noun fa·vor·ably adverb
favorable Synonyms

favorable

modif.

  1. Winning favor

    pleasing, agreeable, desirable, welcome; see pleasant 2.

  2. Displaying suitable or promising qualities

    advantageous, propitious, auspicious, convenient, beneficial, helpful, promising, boding well; see also helpful 1, hopeful 2.

  3. 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

favorable Usage Examples

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.

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