Synonyms for favored
ˈfeɪ vərdfa·vored

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1. favored

   A man is successful in any case if he achieves or gains what he seeks; he is known as a successful man if he has achieved or gained worthy objects of endeavor; he is fortunate or lucky if advantages have come to him without or beyond his direct planning or achieving. Lucky is the more common and colloquial, fortunate the more elegant word; fortunate is more naturally applied to the graver matters, as we speak of the fortunate, rather than the lucky, issue of a great battle; lucky more strongly emphasizes the element of chance, as when we speak of a lucky hit, a lucky guess, or of one as "born under a lucky star." Favored is used in a religious sense, implying that one is the object of divine favor. Happy, in this connection, signifies possessed of the means of happiness. One is said to be happy or prosperous whether his prosperity be the result of fortune or of achievement; prospered rather denotes the action of a superintending Providence.

   Synonyms:
   fortunate, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful

   Antonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woful, wretched

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1. favored, favorite(a), favourite(a), best-loved, pet, preferred, preferentadjective

   preferred above all others and treated with partiality

   "the favored child"

   Antonyms:
   unloved

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1. List of paraphrases for "favored":

   favoured, supported, advantaged, favorite, fostered, preferred

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1. Maxine Hong Kingston:

   The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

2. Senators Diane Feinstein of California:

   It is entirely inappropriate that the railroad industry would make hostages of America's passenger rail services and chemical shippers in order to secure their favored legislative outcome, it is offensive that only when a railroad could face full liability for an accident that they find operation without PTC to be unacceptably dangerous.

3. Tim Wildmon:

   What has happened in the last two presidential election cycles is that the candidates that the Christian conservatives favored split the votes up, when you get three or four social conservative candidates splitting up the vote, McCain and Romney are going to win.

4. Mike Halpert:

   A strong El Nio is in place and should exert a strong influence over our weather this winter, while temperature and precipitation impacts associated with El Nio are favored, El Nio is not the only player. Cold-air outbreaks and snow storms will likely occur at times this winter.

5. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay:

   A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.