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# favorable

«favorable» in Mova's school dictionary: **good or helpful for you: favorable weather** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (favorable, more favorable) (American spelling; British spelling is «favourable»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Favorable means good or helpful for you: favorable weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/#m1)

2) Favorable means showing approval: a favorable opinion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a good moment, wind or fortune that helps the hero

### examples

- The wind was favorable, so the ship sailed fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/#x1)
- She chose a favorable moment to ask. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/#x2)
- Perhaps fortune will be more favorable to me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/#x3)
- The judge gave a favorable report. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «favorable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.