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Definition of Favorable

Favorable
Favorable Fa"vor*a*ble, a. [Written also favourable.] [F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.] 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, n. -- Fa"vor*a*bly, sdv. The faborableness of the present times to all extertions in the cause of liberty. --Burke.

Meaning of Favorable from wikipedia

- asking leading questions. This prevents a lawyer from feeding answers to a favorable witness. An exception to this rule occurs if one side has called a witness...
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- minimax estimator should be a Bayes estimator with respect to a least favorable prior distribution of θ{\displaystyle \theta \,\!}. To demonstrate this...
- achieve a minimum of the Gibbs free energy. A quantitative measure of the favorability of a given reaction under these conditions is the change ΔG (sometimes...
- album were mixed-to-positive. Tony Glover of Rolling Stone gave it a very favorable review at the time. Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times recommended...
- database composed of Familiarity and Favorability data as the quantitative basis of its system. Familiarity and Favorability scores are analyzed in the context...
- to mani****te by limiting early screenings to critics inclined to be favorable, among other tactics. Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998...
- average score of 57 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". List of films about the American Revolution List of television...
- highest-grossing films of 1976. Retrospective reviews of the film have been more favorable as the film earned two Oscar nominations, including a win for Jerry Goldsmith's...
- the tiebreaker. The most favorable of the picks originally belonging to Detroit, Golden State and Washington. The most favorable of the picks originally...