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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Favored \Fa"vored\ (f[=a]"v[~e]rd), adjective
1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness; as, a favored friend.
2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Favor \Fa"vor\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Favored} (f[=a]"v[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Favoring}.] [Written also favour.] [Cf. OF. favorer, favorir. See {Favor}, noun]
1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope.
He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab. --2 Sam. xx. 11.
[The painter] has favored her squint admirably. --Swift.
2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
The porter owned that the gentleman favored his master. --Spectator.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
favored
adjective
1: preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child" [syn: {favorite(a)}, {favourite(a)}, {pet}, {preferred}]
2: blessed with advantages; "she is more advantaged than her cousin"; "born into the favored classes" [syn: {advantaged}]
3: supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust" [syn: {fortunate}, {golden}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "favored": accepted, acclaimed, admired, admitted, advantaged, advocated, affluent, applauded, approved, auspicious, backed, better, blessed, blessed with luck, chartered, choice, chosen, cried up, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, favoring, favorite, fortunate, highly touted, immune, in good odor, in luck, irresponsible, let off, licensed, lucky, more desirable, of choice, permitted, pet, popular, preferable, preferential, preferred, preferring, privileged, prosperous, providential, received, recommended, released, rich, selected, spared, supported, to be preferred, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject, wealthy, well-liked, well-thought-of
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