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/fˈeɪvərəbəl/ /fˈeɪvrəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Favorable adj. (Written also favourable)

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. "Lend favorable ears to our request." "Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land."

Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. "A place very favorable for the making levies of men." "The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life."

Beautiful; well-favored. (Obs.) "The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty."

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Etymology of 'Favorable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Favorable" Quotes from Famous Books

... spreading of strawberries by runners must be familiar to every observer. In 1894 a student reported that a wild strawberry plant in the botanic garden had produced in that year 1230 plants. Weeds were all kept away, the season was favorable, the soil sandy; but on one side, within a foot and a half, progress was checked by the presence of a large plant of another kind. The multiplication of this plant by seeds, in addition to that by runners, would have covered a still greater area of land. Other plants with runners much ...

— Seed Dispersal • William J. Beal

... that it is hard to lay by enough money to keep us and our families during the slack time. If the great cities Thebes and Memphis lay near to us, it would be different. They could consume all we could catch, and we should get better prices, but unless under very favorable circumstances there is no hope of the fowl keeping good during the long passage up the river to Thebes. In fact, were it not for our decoys we should starve. In these, of course, we take them alive, and ...

— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty

... assayed to enter the most lofty ideal. Not wealth alone could purchase entrance within those sacred precincts unless, indeed, it were of sufficient magnitude and distributed with judicious and unvulgar generosity. A tinge of blue in the common red blood of humanity commanded the most favorable consideration, but when there was neither cerulean tinge of blood nor gilding of station the candidate for membership in the Albert was deemed unutterable in his presumption, and rejection absolute and final was inevitable. A single black ball shut him out. So it came as a surprise ...

— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor

... of battle through the day. Everything was favorable. The heat was intense, and I was thirsty. A soldier came past with a back-load ...

— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin

... just considering," he calmly said. "At this moment I do not recollect ever having foreseen any extraordinary event by night. But it has always been a principle of mine to take advantage of every favorable opportunity, whether ...

— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

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