favourable
Britishadjective
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advantageous, encouraging, or promising
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giving consent
Other Word Forms
- favourableness noun
- favourably adverb
Example Sentences
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But after "25 years of degradation of the country's institutional, productive, and social fabric", he says, the conditions for that are now far less favourable.
From BBC
"He seems to be in a very favourable position now."
From Barron's
Website Metacritic, which collects video game reviews from dozens of publications to produce an average score, puts Crimson Desert at a "generally favourable" 78 out of 100.
From BBC
Japan will likely want to make sure it is not walking away from the meeting with less favourable terms than had previously been agreed.
From BBC
After the first leg, only Arsenal and Liverpool were tipped to progress, with that prediction ultimately coming to fruition - and it could be argued they each faced more favourable opponents in Bayer Leverkusen and Galatasaray.
From BBC
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