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favorable 音標拼音: [f'evɚəbəl] [f'evrəbəl] a. 有利的,贊許的,良好的 有利的,贊許的,良好的 favorable adj 1: encouraging or approving or pleasing; " a favorable reply"; " he received a favorable rating"; " listened with a favorable ear"; " made a favorable impression" [ synonym: { favorable}, { favourable}] [ ant: { unfavorable}, { unfavourable}] 2: ( of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; " the days were fair and the winds were favorable" [ synonym: { favorable}, { favourable}] [ ant: { unfavorable}, { unfavourable}] 3: presaging or likely to bring good luck; " a favorable time to ask for a raise"; " lucky stars"; " a prosperous moment to make a decision" [ synonym: { golden}, { favorable}, { favourable}, { lucky}, { prosperous}] 4: inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile; " a government friendly to our interests"; " an amicable agreement" [ synonym: { friendly}, { favorable}, { well- disposed}] 5: occurring at a convenient or suitable time; " an opportune time to receive guests" [ synonym: { favorable}, { favourable}] Favorable \ Fa" vor* a* ble\ ( f[= a]" v[~ e] r*[. a]* b' l), a. [ Written also { favourable}.] [ F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See { Favor}, n.] 1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. [ 1913 Webster] Lend favorable ears to our request. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. -- Ps. lxxxv. 1. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient. [ 1913 Webster] A place very favorable for the making levies of men. -- Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster] The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. -- Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Beautiful; well- favored. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. -- { Fa" vora* ble* ness}, n. -- { Fa" vor* a* bly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 200 Moby Thesaurus words for " favorable": accommodating, accommodative, accordant, acquiescent, advantageous, advisable, advocating, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, amiable, amicable, approbatory, appropriate, approving, ardent, assenting, auspicious, backing, becoming, befitting, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, bon, bonny, brave, braw, bright, bright with promise, brotherly, bueno, capital, cheering, cogent, commendable, commendatory, compliable, compliant, complimentary, congenial, congruous, consentient, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, decent, desirable, dexter, disposed, docile, eager, elegant, encouraging, endorsing, enthusiastic, estimable, excellent, expedient, fain, fair, famous, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate, forward, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, fructuous, full of promise, game, golden, good, goodly, grand, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, healthful, healthy, helpful, helping, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inspiring, inspiriting, kind, kindly, kindly- disposed, laudable, laudatory, likely, looking up, lucky, meet, minded, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, noble, nothing loath, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, opportune, peaceable, permissive, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasureful, pliant, politic, positive, praiseful, predisposed, pregnant of good, pro, profitable, promising, prompt, prone, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, reassuring, receptive, recommendable, recommendatory, regal, responsive, right, ripe, royal, salutary, sanctioning, seasonable, seemly, simpatico, sisterly, skillful, sociable, sortable, sound, splendid, submissive, suitable, supporting, supportive, sympathetic, sympathique, timely, to be desired, toward, tractable, ungrudging, unhostile, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, welcome, well- affected, well- disposed, well- inclined, well- intentioned, well- meaning, well- meant, well- timed, white, wholesome, willed, willing, willinghearted, wise, worthwhile, zealous
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