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Synonyms for favourable
favourable
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Wiktionary
favourableadjective
Synonyms:
lucky, encouraging, convenient, helpful, advantageous, pleasing, handy, opportune, fortunate, useful, auspicious, good, suitable, approvingAntonyms:
displeasing, unfavourable, inconvenient, inopportune, unlucky, discouraging, bad, unsuitable, unhelpful, inauspiciousfavourableadjective
pleasing, encouraging or approving
The candidate wearing the business suit made a favourable impression.
Synonyms:
useful, auspicious, convenient, good, opportune, helpful, encouraging, approving, suitable, fortunate, handy, advantageous, pleasing, luckyAntonyms:
inauspicious, displeasing, unlucky, unhelpful, unsuitable, discouraging, inconvenient, inopportune, unfavourable, badfavourableadjective
useful or helpful
We made quick progress, due to favourable winds.
Synonyms:
approving, useful, opportune, auspicious, convenient, lucky, helpful, pleasing, good, handy, fortunate, encouraging, advantageous, suitableAntonyms:
displeasing, unsuitable, inauspicious, discouraging, inconvenient, unhelpful, unlucky, inopportune, bad, unfavourablefavourableadjective
convenient or at a suitable time; opportune
The rain stopped at a favourable time for our tennis match.
Synonyms:
approving, encouraging, convenient, auspicious, pleasing, suitable, handy, lucky, helpful, fortunate, useful, opportune, good, advantageousAntonyms:
displeasing, inopportune, inauspicious, discouraging, unlucky, inconvenient, unfavourable, bad, unsuitable, unhelpfulfavourableadjective
auspicious or lucky
She says that she was born under a favourable star.
Synonyms:
suitable, encouraging, handy, opportune, auspicious, fortunate, lucky, advantageous, helpful, convenient, useful, pleasing, good, approvingAntonyms:
discouraging, unfavourable, inauspicious, bad, displeasing, inopportune, unlucky, unsuitable, inconvenient, unhelpful
Princeton's WordNet
favorable, favourableadjective
encouraging or approving or pleasing
"a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression"
Synonyms:
friendly, golden, favorable, well-disposed, lucky, prosperousAntonyms:
inconvenient, unpropitiousfavorable, favourableadjective
(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
"the days were fair and the winds were favorable"
Synonyms:
friendly, golden, favorable, well-disposed, lucky, prosperousAntonyms:
inconvenient, unpropitiousfavorable, favourableadjective
occurring at a convenient or suitable time
"an opportune time to receive guests"
Synonyms:
friendly, golden, favorable, well-disposed, lucky, prosperousAntonyms:
inconvenient, unpropitiousgolden, favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperousadjective
presaging or likely to bring good luck
"a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
Synonyms:
flourishing, thriving, well-heeled, well-disposed, gilded, easy, aureate, favorable, fortunate, friendly, well-situated, well-to-do, halcyon, palmy, booming, well-off, prosperous, gold, comfortable, roaring, lucky, gilt, prospering, well-fixed, goldenAntonyms:
unpropitious, inconvenient
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "favourable":
conducive, favorable, positive, enabling, supportive, favour, beneficial, advantageous, propitious, favourably, good, satisfactory, favor, support, preferential, sympathetic, friendly, auspicious, concessionary, benign
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#148 | support | |
#155 | good | |
#621 | easy | |
#740 | gold | |
#1254 | friendly | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1467 | positive | |
#1781 | helpful | |
#2338 | golden | |
#3580 | suitable | |
#3746 | comfortable | |
#4797 | lucky | |
#5143 | convenient | |
#5455 | favor | |
#6638 | enabling | |
#7345 | handy | |
#7874 | encouraging | |
#7883 | beneficial | |
#8185 | satisfactory | |
#9808 | favour | |
#10155 | supportive | |
#11528 | favorable | |
#13484 | fortunate | |
#16843 | approving | |
#16921 | sympathetic | |
#16939 | pleasing | |
#17979 | benign | |
#19183 | favourable | |
#20164 | thriving | |
#20737 | preferential | |
#21540 | prosperous | |
#21969 | roaring | |
#23212 | advantageous | |
#23990 | booming | |
#24162 | gilt | |
#24389 | conducive | |
#34679 | gilded | |
#34866 | flourishing | |
#42326 | halcyon | |
#46691 | favourably | |
#47443 | auspicious | |
#63449 | opportune | |
#79166 | concessionary | |
#97283 | prospering | |
#105236 | propitious | |
#212314 | palmy | |
#216212 | aureate |
How to use favourable in a sentence?
With the favourable policies from the government and outstanding executive team of LeTV Sports, it is natural for us to invest in companies like LeTV Sports.
It's not a privatisation but a giveaway if state assets are sold when the market is not favourable, personally I believe that a further privatisation of Eni must be decided in light of market conditions.
Policies since September were favourable to mass buyers but home prices came down in Q4 because developers were slashing prices to meet target and get rid of inventory.
This is a favourable arrangement which will support the budget and enable stable payments of pensions and wages and strengthen liquidity of the public sector.
Chief Executive Bezhalel Machlis:
Another important element of our results is the solid growth in two important target regions for us, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, these results, combined with a somewhat more favourable macro-environment for defence spending, lead us to be optimistic with regard to 2015.
Translations for favourable
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- благоприя́тенBulgarian
- favorableCatalan, Valencian
- příznivýCzech
- günstigGerman
- favoraEsperanto
- favorableSpanish
- sopiva, suotuisa, myönteinenFinnish
- favorableFrench
- अनुकूलHindi
- նպաստավորArmenian
- favorevoleItalian
- 順調, 好調Japanese
- dogodny, szczęśliwy, sprzyjającyPolish
- favorávelPortuguese
- favorabilRomanian
- прия́тный, подходя́щий, благоприя́тный, благоприя́тствующий, удо́бныйRussian
- சாதகமானTamil
- సానుకూలము, అనుకూలమైనTelugu
- 有利Chinese
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