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Definition of favorable :
1. Beautiful; well- favored.
2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
3. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Synonyms:
prospering, well-to-do, gilt, aureate, plausive, approbative, complimentary, well-disposed, gold, seasonable, favourable, flourishing, acclamatory, opportune, well-situated, indulgent, like, fond, benignant, fair, amicable, thriving, affable, beneficent, gilded, gratifying, kindly, social, tender, benefic, well-off, well-fixed, approbatory, brotherly, well-heeled, booming, grateful, brilliant, hearty, approving, partial, preferential, well-timed, friendly, convenient, congenial, loving, luck, palmy, halcyon, affirmatory, complaisant, cordial, timely, welcome, kind, positive, satisfying, affectionate, affirm, toward, neighborly, affirmative, accessible, comfortable, roaring, help, salutary, sociable, genial, following, desirable, companionable, easy
beneficial (part of speech: adjective)
helpful, progressive, advantageous, useful, profitable, gainful, better, successful, improving, prosperous
fortunate (part of speech: adjective)
favored, fortuitous, blessed, auspicious, fortunate, propitious, lucky
acceptable (part of speech: adjective)
allowable, permissible, acceptable, tolerable, passable, admissible, adequate, suitable, appropriate, satisfactory
good (part of speech: adjective)
fine, excellent, splendid, pleasant, nice, beneficial, five-star, admirable, exemplary, first-rate, worthwhile, laudable, good, benign, worthy, praiseworthy, topnotch, commendable
promising (part of speech: adjective)
hopeful, encouraging, roseate, promising, rose-colored, rosy, full of promise, golden, utopian
pleasurable (part of speech: adjective)
delightful, unobjectionable, jolly, enjoyable, pleasurable, bright, agreeable, enlivening, charming, ambrosial, entertaining, blissful, cheerful, amusing, pleasing, sunny, sweet, bonny, joyful, enchanting, delectable
Usage examples:
- Badly run as she thought the world, for a time it was more favorable to her material prosperity than she had ever known it. - "Hillsboro People", Dorothy Canfield.
- To put this matter into practical operation, a few gentlemen applied to the last Legislature and obtained a most favorable charter for 'The Charleston Manufacturing Company'. - "The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South", Broadus Mitchell.
- It is not quite so favorable. - "Monopolies and the People", D. C. Cloud.