Definitions for favorable

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favorable fa·vor·a·ble

Spelling: [fey-ver-uh-buh l, feyv-r Favorable is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 349 anagrams from letters in favorable (aabeflorv).

Definitions for favorable

adjective

1. characterized by approval or support; positive:
2. creating or winning favor; pleasing:
3. affording advantage, opportunity, or convenience; advantageous:
4. (of an answer) granting what is desired.
5. boding well; propitious:

Origin of favorable

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French, Middle French Latin favōrābilis. See favor, -able

Examples for favorable

In October 2001, an ABC poll found that 47 percent of Americans had a favorable view of Islam.

At this favorable moment the counterfeit conjurers disappeared.

My mind was made up to "take to the woods" on the first favorable opportunity.

Heyward was not slow to confirm an opinion that was so favorable to his own pretensions.

He left the office, not a little elated at his favorable reception.

If most of the McCarthy comparisons have been favorable, all of them have been facile.

Just 39 percent give Democrats a favorable rating and just 33 percent do the same for Republicans.

Even if you look at that in the most favorable light possible, it was not accurate.

Forthwith, Burke set out to make the most of this favorable opportunity.

(Referenda tend to be expensive, rife with misinformation, and favorable to extreme positions).