Thesaurus: favorable

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1. n. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
2. n. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
3. n. Beautiful; well-favored.
4. adj. encouraging or approving or pleasing
5. adj. (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
6. adj. presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
7. adj. giving an advantage
8. 1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. A place very favorable for the making levies of men. Clarendon. The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. Sir W. Temple. 3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Fa"vora*ble*ness, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.
9. j:100 a. encouraging or approving or pleasing a. (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate s. occurring at a convenient or suitable time