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Favorable vs Sterling - What's the difference?

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Favorable is a related term of sterling.


As an adjective favorable

is pleasing, encouraging or approving.

As a proper noun sterling is

a scottish surname, variant of stirling.

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 ----

    sterling

    English

    (wikipedia sterling)

    Noun

  • The currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“… among the objects stolen was the famous parure of Black Diamonds, for which a bid of half a million sterling had just been made and accepted. […]”}}
  • Former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness: for gold 0.91666 and for silver 0.925.
  • * S. M. Leake
    • Sterling was the known and approved standard in England, in all probability, from the beginning of King Henry the Second's reign.
  • Sterling silver, or articles made from this material.
  • A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge; a starling.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage.
  • of, relating to, or made from sterling silver.
  • Of acknowledged worth or influence; high quality; authoritative.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2014 , date=December 13 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Burnley 1-0 Southampton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Southampton had been hoping to get back to winning ways to prove to their critics there was substance to their sterling start to the season.}}
  • Genuine; true; pure; of great value or excellence.

    • Anagrams

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