favorable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective encouraging or approving or pleasing
    favourable.
    • a favorable reply
    • he received a favorable rating
    • listened with a favorable ear
    • made a favorable impression
  2. adjective (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
    favourable.
    • the days were fair and the winds were favorable
  3. adjective satellite presaging or likely to bring good luck
    golden; prosperous; lucky; favourable.
    • a favorable time to ask for a raise
    • lucky stars
    • a prosperous moment to make a decision
  4. adjective satellite inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile
    well-disposed; friendly.
    • a government friendly to our interests
    • an amicable agreement
  5. adjective satellite occurring at a convenient or suitable time
    favourable.
    • an opportune time to receive guests

WordNet

Fa"vor*a*ble adjective
Etymology
F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.
Definitions
  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, adv.
    The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.

Webster 1913