Favorable vs Benignant - What's the difference?
favorable | benignant |
pleasing, encouraging or approving
useful or helpful
convenient or at a suitable time; opportune
auspicious or lucky
Kind; gracious; favorable.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 417:
As adjectives the difference between favorable and benignant
is that favorable is pleasing, encouraging or approving while benignant is kind; gracious; favorable.favorable
English
Alternative forms
* favourableAdjective
(en adjective)- The candidate wearing the business suite made a favorable impression.
- We made quick progress, due to favorable winds.
- The rain stopped at a favourable time for our tennis match.
- She says that she was born under a favorable star.
Synonyms
* (pleasing ): approving, encouraging, good, pleasing * (useful ): advantageous, helpful, useful * (opportune ): convenient, good, handy, opportune, suitable * (auspicious ): auspicious, fortunate, luckyAntonyms
* (pleasing ): bad, discouraging, displeasing, unfavorable * (useful ): unhelpful * (opportune ): bad, inconvenient, inopportune, unsuitable * (auspicious ): inauspicious, unfavourable, unluckyDerived terms
* unfavorablebenignant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Here Nature appears in her richest attire, and Art, dressed with the modestest simplicity, attends her benignant mistress.