Definition of Favorable

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Favorable

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.

Beautiful; well-favored.

Related Definitions:

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Favorable Quotations

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
W. C. Fields

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.
James Monroe

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
James Monroe

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
Mark Spitz

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Elihu Root

Favorable Translations

favorable in Latin is aequus, prolixus, propitius, volens, prosper
favorable in Swedish is gynnsamt

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