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favourable English

Meaning favourable meaning

What does favourable mean?
Definitions in simple English

favourable

If something is favourable, then it is pleasing. His smart attitude left a favourable impression on everybody. If something is favourable, then it is useful or helpful The favourable conditions helped us to finish our task quickly. If something is favourable, then it happens at a suitable time

favourable

(= favorable) (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate the days were fair and the winds were favorable (= favorable) encouraging or approving or pleasing a favorable reply he received a favorable rating listened with a favorable ear made a favorable impression (= favorable) occurring at a convenient or suitable time an opportune time to receive guests (= favorable, lucky, prosperous) presaging or likely to bring good luck a favorable time to ask for a raise lucky stars a prosperous moment to make a decision

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Simple sentences

I told Tom what I thought of him and it wasn't anything favourable.
The boy more than justified the favourable opinion they had formed of him.
The film received favourable criticism.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Due to lack of money the more advantageous solution initially chosen was abandoned in favour of a necessarily less favourable second choice.
The weather wasn't favourable to us.

Movie subtitles

The landlord's terms are very favourable.
Favourable conditions for disease development are probably the result of normal organic changes, which we call aging.
Every now and again, depending upon favourable weather, they make the journey.
No, I'm unable to see, even if she's yours, that a young man is morally called upon to give up a career at the law to provide his aunt with a favourable opportunity to play to bridge with.
In fact, before I could learn of a favourable opportunity, I had to join the movement myself.
Oh, balloons. The preliminary reports on the use of balloons for initial jumps are generally favourable.
Providing the signs are favourable, the Zodiac welcomes you.
The time is favourable.
The night is favourable.
Because your wife was raped, you'll have a favourable atmosphere in the courtroom.
The judges' remarks were by no means favourable.
Not favourable?
The odds would have been more favourable.
I'd say you created a favourable impression on Citizen Robespierre.
Such aspirations are also favourable to a unified fatherIand.
My husband gave him a parrot to earn a favourable rebirth.
The journalists saw them. Their reviews were favourable.
Not favourable? How can that be?
Well, I hope all the reports were favourable.
Formerly, we used to consider sheltered valleys more favourable to plants than hilltops.
If these tests prove favourable some of you may be among those chosen to serve the Dominators.
My home secretary, Mrs. Naidu, will explain the favourable arrangements we are planning for this area.
A calm sea, favourable wind.
Very well. A calm sea, favourable wind.
In short, i very much hope that the marquise's hand will be awarded to me, and i respectfully beg you to grant me instantly a favourable answer.
I implore you, if anything here speaks well on my behalf, do not let me leave without a more favourable answer.
It's a favourable situation.
A favourable conjunction of the stars, my lady.
You must have been born under a particularly favourable conjunction of celestial circumstances.
I only said it looked very favourable.

News and current affairs

Of course, if the international economic environment had been more favourable, and if there were not so much legitimate concern about declining purchasing power, the French might have shown greater indulgence towards their young president.
But in arithmetic terms it is less favourable to the smaller countries, since they lose their weighting advantage.
It is much less favourable to Spain and Poland, since the weighting they received at Nice is almost as great as that of Germany, even though heir population are only half as large.
Such major losses in fishing capacity, with their far-reaching negative socio-economic consequences on the human populations affected, are bound to have major, mostly favourable, effects on the fish stocks.
On-the-surface political stability and favourable investment laws may be in place, but in the absence of an effective judiciary or reliable security forces, committing capital to promising projects becomes that much more difficult.

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