Synonyms for favourable
favourable

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1. favourableadjective

   Synonyms:
   lucky, encouraging, convenient, helpful, advantageous, pleasing, handy, opportune, fortunate, useful, auspicious, good, suitable, approving

   Antonyms:
   displeasing, unfavourable, inconvenient, inopportune, unlucky, discouraging, bad, unsuitable, unhelpful, inauspicious

2. favourableadjective

   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, lucky

   Antonyms:
   inauspicious, displeasing, unlucky, unhelpful, unsuitable, discouraging, inconvenient, inopportune, unfavourable, bad

3. favourableadjective

   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, suitable

   Antonyms:
   displeasing, unsuitable, inauspicious, discouraging, inconvenient, unhelpful, unlucky, inopportune, bad, unfavourable

4. favourableadjective

   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, advantageous

   Antonyms:
   displeasing, inopportune, inauspicious, discouraging, unlucky, inconvenient, unfavourable, bad, unsuitable, unhelpful

5. favourableadjective

   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, approving

   Antonyms:
   discouraging, unfavourable, inauspicious, bad, displeasing, inopportune, unlucky, unsuitable, inconvenient, unhelpful

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. 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, prosperous

   Antonyms:
   inconvenient, unpropitious

2. favorable, 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, prosperous

   Antonyms:
   inconvenient, unpropitious

3. favorable, favourableadjective

   occurring at a convenient or suitable time

   "an opportune time to receive guests"

   Synonyms:
   friendly, golden, favorable, well-disposed, lucky, prosperous

   Antonyms:
   inconvenient, unpropitious

4. golden, 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, golden

   Antonyms:
   unpropitious, inconvenient

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1. 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

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How to use favourable in a sentence?

1. Johannes Caspar:

   The fact that the companies have eventually implemented a legal basis for the transfer had to be taken into account in a favourable way for the calculation of the fines, for future infringements, stricter measures have to be applied.

2. Matteo Renzi:

   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.

3. Christopher Delbrueck:

   There are options but they must be assured of favourable taxation models.

4. Goa Kerle:

   Perfection in the context of the world isn't about everything being favourable for man, it's about the world being favourable for man which it is.

5. Sean Darby:

   Markets in Europe have perhaps woken up to a less favourable environment in terms of the negotiation for Greece and bond yields.