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approving, friendly adj.
good, timely, advantageous adj.

ADJECTIVE

approving, friendly

Synonyms

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agreeable benign encouraging positive supportive sympathetic

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acclamatory affirmative amicable approbative approbatory assenting benevolent benignant commending complimentary enthusiastic in favor of inclined kind kindly laudatory okay praiseful predisposed reassuring recommendatory understanding welcoming well-disposed well-intentioned

Antonyms

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disadvantageous disagreeable hateful

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bad derogatory detrimental harmful hindering hurtful hurting injurious unfavorable unfriendly unhelpful unpromising

ADJECTIVE

good, timely, advantageous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appropriate beneficial benign convenient encouraging fair helpful pleasant pleasing suitable useful

WEAK

auspicious benefic bright cheering fit fortunate full of promise gratifying happy healthful hopeful kindly lucky nice opportune pleasurable pleasureful promising propitious prosperous providential reassuring seasonable toward welcome well-timed wholesome worthy

Antonyms

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disadvantageous harmful hateful hurtful improper inappropriate injurious unacceptable unfitting unhelpful unsuitable unsuited useless worthless

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bad derogatory detrimental disagreeable hindering hurting unfavorable unfriendly unpromising

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more favorable

In a recent Pew Research Center poll of 36 nations, the people in 25 of them hold a more favorable view of China than they do of the United States.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

The authors estimated that private ratings are effectively two to three notches more favorable than public ratings with comparable impairment risk.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

“The lifting of the U.S. blockade makes the deal more favorable to Iran,” said Saeid Golkar, an Iran expert who teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

For Eyre, the prospects of Washington reaching a more favorable deal than the one Trump scrapped are slim.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

It could not have been a more favorable time for the meeting.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler