英语词汇“favorable”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	favorable
释义	fa·vor·able \ˈfāvər(ə)bəl, -vrəb-\ adjective Etymology: Middle English favourable, favorable, from Middle French favorable, from Latin favorabilis popular, pleasing, from favor + -abilis -able — more at favor 1. a. : disposed to favor : favoring, approving, partial < taking a favorable attitude toward our request > : expressing approval : commendatory < a favorable recommendation > < a favorable grade on an exam > also : giving a result that is in one's favor < a favorable comparison > b. obsolete : gracious, obliging c. : granting or obliging in what is desired : affirmative < gave a favorable answer to our request > 2. : winning approval : pleasing, agreeable < made a favorable impression on his future colleagues > 3. a. : tending to promote or facilitate : advantageous < a favorable wind blew us into port without a mishap > < a business climate favorable to almost any enterprise > b. : having the value of exports exceed that of imports < a favorable balance of trade > 4. a. : indicative of a successful outcome : affording cheer or reason for optimism : boding well < favorable weather for our yacht trip > < favorable conditions for opening a new business > b. : marked by success : turning out in the way desired or hoped < a favorable demonstration of a new invention > < made a favorable adjustment to the new conditions of her life > Synonyms: benign, auspicious, propitious: favorable describes persons, events, or conditions whose disposition or effect is kindly, helpful, advantageous, or encouraging and likely to presage or facilitate a happy outcome < a hot dry summer, favorable to contemplative life out of doors — Joseph Conrad > < they won't take a chance of battle unless they can feel sure of most favorable conditions — Alexander Forbes > < my position in reference to them, being paternal and protective, was favorable to the growth of friendly sentiments — Nathaniel Hawthorne > benign may apply to persons or agencies that have power or position to harm, hinder, or check but whose disposition appears kindly and encouraging < that benign friend who had previously comforted him in his misery — Anthony Trollope > < always benign, there was not a grain of ill will anywhere in him — A.N.Whitehead > < the benign and fatherly old man put his arm round her waist — Arnold Bennett > auspicious describes events or conditions pointing toward good or favorable outcomes or developments < court astrologers pronounced March 2, 1949, an auspicious date for the coronation — Current Biography > < at least pay the boy then; I have no pice with me, and he brought auspicious news — Rudyard Kipling > propitious describes, perhaps more mildly so than auspicious, events or conditions that are favorable. propitious may describe that which lacks any discouraging indication without having the optimistic ring of auspicious < although it was already late in the autumn, the weather was propitious — J.L.Motley > < after so propitious an opening it seemed that acerbities might be quelled, rivalries mitigated — S.H.Adams >
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