Favorable vs Worthy - What's the difference?
favorable | worthy | Related terms |
pleasing, encouraging or approving
useful or helpful
convenient or at a suitable time; opportune
auspicious or lucky
having worth, merit or value
* Shakespeare
* Sir J. Davies
honourable or admirable
deserving, or having sufficient worth
Suited; befitting.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew iii. 11
* Milton
* Dryden
a distinguished or eminent person
To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.
* 1880 , Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature :
* 1908 , Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century :
* 1910 , Charles William Eliot, The Harvard classics: Beowulf :
Favorable is a related term of worthy.
As adjectives the difference between favorable and worthy
is that favorable is pleasing, encouraging or approving while worthy is having worth, merit or value.As a noun worthy is
a distinguished or eminent person.As a verb worthy is
to render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.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
* unfavorableworthy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) worthy, wurthi, from (etyl) *.Adjective
(er)- These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities.
- This worthy' mind should ' worthy things embrace.
- No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
- whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
- And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know / More happiness.
- The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
Derived terms
* worthily * worthinessNoun
(worthies)Etymology 2
From (etyl) worthien, wurthien, from (etyl) .Verb
- And put upon him such a deal of man, That worthied him, got praises of the king [...]'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear .
- After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
- And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.
- No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!