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Synonyms for favourable
favourable
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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?
I take this job at a very challenging time. I will endeavour to ensure every policy is directed at creating favourable investment conditions that will lead to the development of South Africa for all South Africans.
Issuers are taking advantage at still-favourable financing conditions to refinance their debt and cover future financing needs.
Demand is increasing, notably in gasoline, I think most of the market expects that eventually we'll break through to the upside - but in the meantime producers are taking a realistic view on the commodity, it's reflective of a move to lock in favourable economics and support the portfolio before they get ready to ramp production back up.
Of course Apple is a really big company, and having disappointed a little bit on the sales side of things, does tend to reverberate around the world in technology stocks ... but we would consider that to be just normal volatility, the Greek resolution is now largely priced into European markets, so going forward we're more focused on the European fundamentals ... which we think are very favourable, so we continue to hold European equity overweight in the back of that view.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
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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