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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Favorable \Fa"vor*a*ble\ (f[=a]"v[~e]r*[.a]*b'l), adjective [Written also {favourable}.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See {Favor}, noun]
1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.
Lend favorable ears to our request. --Shak.
Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. --Ps. lxxxv. 1.
2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; advantageous; convenient.
A place very favorable for the making levies of men. --Clarendon.
The temper of the climate, favorable to generation, health, and long life. --Sir W. Temple.
3. Beautiful; well-favored. [Obs.] --Spenser. -- {Fa"vora*ble*ness}, noun -- {Fa"vor*a*bly}, adverb
The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
favorable
adjective
1: very favorable or advantageous; "a golden opportunity" [syn: {golden}]
2: encouraging or approving or pleasing; "a favorable reply"; "he received a favorable rating"; "listened with a favorable ear"; "made a favorable impression" [syn: {favourable}] [ant: {unfavorable}]
3: (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable" [syn: {favourable}] [ant: {unfavorable}]
4: favorably disposed; not antagonistic; "a government favorable to our interests" [syn: {well-disposed}]
5: tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision" [syn: {auspicious}, {encouraging}, {favourable}, {lucky}, {prosperous}]
6: at a convenient or suitable time; "an opportune time to receive guests" [syn: {favourable}, {opportune}]
7: granting what has been desired or requested; "a favorable reply"; "a positive answer" [syn: {positive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
200 Moby Thesaurus words for "favorable": accommodating, accommodative, accordant, acquiescent, advantageous, advisable, advocating, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, amenable, amiable, amicable, approbatory, appropriate, approving, ardent, assenting, auspicious, backing, becoming, befitting, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, bon, bonny, brave, braw, bright, bright with promise, brotherly, bueno, capital, cheering, cogent, commendable, commendatory, compliable, compliant, complimentary, congenial, congruous, consentient, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, decent, desirable, dexter, disposed, docile, eager, elegant, encouraging, endorsing, enthusiastic, estimable, excellent, expedient, fain, fair, famous, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate, forward, fraternal, friendlike, friendly, fructuous, full of promise, game, golden, good, goodly, grand, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, healthful, healthy, helpful, helping, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inspiring, inspiriting, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, laudable, laudatory, likely, looking up, lucky, meet, minded, neighborlike, neighborly, nice, noble, nothing loath, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, opportune, peaceable, permissive, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasureful, pliant, politic, positive, praiseful, predisposed, pregnant of good, pro, profitable, promising, prompt, prone, proper, propitious, prosperous, providential, quick, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, reassuring, receptive, recommendable, recommendatory, regal, responsive, right, ripe, royal, salutary, sanctioning, seasonable, seemly, simpatico, sisterly, skillful, sociable, sortable, sound, splendid, submissive, suitable, supporting, supportive, sympathetic, sympathique, timely, to be desired, toward, tractable, ungrudging, unhostile, unloath, unrefusing, unreluctant, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, welcome, well-affected, well-disposed, well-inclined, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, well-timed, white, wholesome, willed, willing, willinghearted, wise, worthwhile, zealous
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