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favorable

/'feɪvərəbəl/

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adjective
presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome
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"a favorable time to ask for a raise"

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favourable golden lucky prosperous propitious
adjective
giving an advantage
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advantageous favourable plus good preferential positive beneficial discriminatory
adjective
encouraging or approving or pleasing
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"a favorable reply" "he received a favorable rating" "listened with a favorable ear" "made a favorable impression"

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favourable approbative approving indulgent plausive affirmative approbatory

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unfavorable
adjective
(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
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"the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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favourable following

Opposite:

unfavorable

Examples of favorable

"a favorable time to ask for a raise"
"a favorable reply"
"he received a favorable rating"
"listened with a favorable ear"
"made a favorable impression"
"the days were fair and the winds were favorable"