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Favorable vs Promising - What's the difference?

favorable | promising |

As adjectives the difference between favorable and promising

is that favorable is pleasing, encouraging or approving while promising is showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.

As a verb promising is

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As a noun promising is

the act of making a promise.

favorable

English

Alternative forms

* favourable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • pleasing, encouraging or approving
    • The candidate wearing the business suite made a favorable impression.
  • useful or helpful
    • We made quick progress, due to favorable winds.
  • convenient or at a suitable time; opportune
    • The rain stopped at a favourable time for our tennis match.
  • auspicious or lucky
    • 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, lucky

    Antonyms

    * (pleasing ): bad, discouraging, displeasing, unfavorable * (useful ): unhelpful * (opportune ): bad, inconvenient, inopportune, unsuitable * (auspicious ): inauspicious, unfavourable, unlucky

    Derived terms

    * unfavorable

    Related terms

    * favor * favorably ----

    promising

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a promise.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
    • So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".