favorable[adjective]Synonyms: approbative, approbatory, approving, pleasant, agreeable, good, grateful, gratifying, nice, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasureful, welcome, advantageous, benefic, beneficial, brave, favoring, helpful, propitious, toward, useful, timely, auspicious, opportune, prosperous, seasonable, timeous, well-timed, benign, bright, dexter, fortunate, white
Antonyms: unfavorable
Contrasted words: depreciative, disapprobatory, disapproving, disparaging, uncomplimentary, censorious, condemnatory, critical, faultfinding, disadvantageous, unpropitious, damaging, hampering, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, fateful, ruinous, baleful, malefic, maleficent, malign, sinister, ill-fated, ill-starred, unlucky, inauspicious, unpromising
Related Idioms: in one's favor, full of promise
Related Words: benignant,
kind,
kindly,
recommendatory,
well-disposed,
commendatory,
complimentary,
laudatory,
praiseful,
healthful,
salutary,
wholesome,
advantageous,
beneficial,
profitable,
happy,
lucky,
promising,
providential,
cheering,
encouraging,
reassuring [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
II. fa‧vour‧a‧ble British English,
favorable American English /ˈfeɪv
ərəb
əl/
adjective1. a favourable report, opinion, or reaction shows that you think that someone or something is good or that you agree with them:
favourable film reviews The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.2. suitable and likely to make something happen or succeed:
The disease spreads quickly under favourable conditions.favourable for/to a financial environment that is favorable to job creation3. if a
loan, agreement, rate etc is favourable, the conditions of it are reasonable and not too expensive or difficult:
a favourable interest rate the favorable terms of the settlement4. making people like or approve of someone or something:
A smart appearance makes a favourable impression at an interview.—favourably adverb [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲