Fa″vor‐a‐ble (–ȧ‐b'l), 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. 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.