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favorableadjective expressing approvalfavorable reviews for the movie were few admiring, applauding, appreciative, approbatory, approving, commendatory, complimentary, friendly, good, positive accepting, warmencomiastic, eulogistic, flattering, hagiographic(also hagiographical), laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praisefulrespectful, supportive, sympatheticadoring, adulatory, idolizing, worshipful, worshipping(also worshiping)advisory, recommendatory adverse, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, disapproving, inappreciative, negative, unappreciative, uncomplimentary, unfavorable, unflattering, unfriendly captious, carping, caviling(or cavilling), censuring, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcriticalbelittling, contemptuous, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting pointing toward a happy outcomefavorable economic conditions for opening a new business auspicious, bright, encouraging, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providentialadvantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious unfortunate, unhappy, unluckycalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinousbaleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening promoting or contributing to personal or social well-beingmoved to a region with a milder climate in the hope that it would be more favorable to his health advantageous, benefic, beneficent, beneficial, benignant, friendly, good, helpful, kindly, profitable, salutary gratifying, rewarding, satisfyingauspicious, promising, propitiousadvisable, desirable, healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutiferous, wholesomegainful, lucrative, remunerativeameliorative, amelioratory, bettering, constructive, supportive bad, disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhelpful, unprofitable damaging, deleterious, harmful, injurious, insalubrious favorable, auspicious, propitious mean pointing toward a happy outcome.favorable implies that the persons involved are approving or helpful or that the circumstances are advantageous.favorable weather conditions auspicious applies to something taken as a sign or omen promising success before or at the start of an event.an auspicious beginning propitious may also apply to beginnings but often implies a continuing favorable condition.a propitious time for starting a business in the 14th century |