FAVORABLE

favorable. Favorable, a. propitious, kind, gracious, tender

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Fa″vor‐a‐ble (–ȧ‐b'l), a. [Written also favourable.] [[F. favorable, L. favorabilis favored, popular, pleasing, fr. favor. See Favor, n.]] 1. 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. 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. 3. Beautiful; well-favored. Spenser.
— Fa″vora‐ble‐ness, n. — Fa″vor‐a‐bly, adv. The favorableness of the present times to all exertions in the cause of liberty. Burke.