Antonyms for favourablefavourable

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1. favourableadjective

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

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

2. favourableadjective

   pleasing, encouraging or approving

   The candidate wearing the business suit made a favourable impression.

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

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

3. favourableadjective

   useful or helpful

   We made quick progress, due to favourable winds.

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

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

4. favourableadjective

   convenient or at a suitable time; opportune

   The rain stopped at a favourable time for our tennis match.

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

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

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

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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"

   Antonyms:
   inconvenient, unpropitious

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

2. favorable, favourableadjective

   (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate

   "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

   Antonyms:
   inconvenient, unpropitious

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

3. favorable, favourableadjective

   occurring at a convenient or suitable time

   "an opportune time to receive guests"

   Antonyms:
   inconvenient, unpropitious

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   unpropitious, inconvenient

   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

How to use favourable in a sentence?

1. Atif Abdulmalik:

   This transaction represents Arcapita's fifth successful exit in the senior living sector, which continues to benefit from favourable long-term fundamentals, we are pleased with the profitable outcome of this investment.

2. Wouter Sturkenboom:

   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.

3. Tom Albanese:

   Vedanta Limited in its own results presentation said back in May that it was intending to (refinance) its debt, in the current favourable markets, we do not need the merger to do that.

4. Richard Franulovich:

   A follow-up Fed hike could come as soon as March, aided and abetted by favourable oil price base-effects that will lift inflation almost a percentage point and a potentially mild winter, we should see a resumption of the dollar's longer term uptrend as 2016 progresses.

5. Kaur Pola:

   Malakoff's gearing is not low at 290 percent, so sizable acquisitions would require equity, in the current environment, any association with 1MDB would be negative. In addition, 1MDB paid fairly rich valuations for its assets so a favourable transaction is not likely.

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