Favourable vs Felicitous - What's the difference?
favourable | felicitous | Related terms |
pleasing, encouraging or approving
useful or helpful
convenient or at a suitable time; opportune
auspicious or lucky
fitting; happening at the right time.
Working out well.
(linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
Favourable is a related term of felicitous.
As adjectives the difference between favourable and felicitous
is that favourable is pleasing, encouraging or approving while felicitous is fitting; happening at the right time.favourable
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Alternative forms
* favorable (chiefly US )Adjective
(en adjective)- The candidate wearing the business suit made a favourable impression.
- We made quick progress, due to favourable winds.
- The rain stopped at a favourable time for our tennis match.
- She says that she was born under a favourable 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, unfavourable * (useful ): unhelpful * (opportune ): bad, inconvenient, inopportune, unsuitable * (auspicious ): inauspicious, unfavourable, unluckyDerived terms
* unfavourablefelicitous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous .