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favorable
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
favorable (comparative more favorable, superlative most favorable)
- (American spelling) Alternative form of favourable
Derived terms
- unfavorable
Related terms
- favor
- favorably
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin favorabilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /f?.vo??a.bl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /f?.bu??a.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /fa.vo??a.ble/
Adjective
favorable (masculine and feminine plural favorables)
- favourable
Further reading
- “favorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “favorable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “favorable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “favorable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin favorabilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.v?.?abl/
Adjective
favorable (plural favorables)
- favourable, favorable
Antonyms
- hostile
Related terms
- faveur
- favorablement
Further reading
- “favorable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- favorábel
Etymology
From Latin favorabilis.
Adjective
favorable m or f (plural favorables)
- favorable
Derived terms
- favorablemente
Further reading
- “favorable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin favorabilis
Adjective
favorable m (feminine singular favorabla, masculine plural favorables, feminine plural favorablas)
- favorable
Derived terms
- desfavorable
- favorablament
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin favorabilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fabo??able/, [fa.??o??a.??le]
Adjective
favorable (plural favorables)
- favorable
Derived terms
- favorablemente
Further reading
- “favorable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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righteous
English
Alternative forms
- rightuous, rightwise (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier rightuous, rightwose, rightwos, rightwise, from Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtw?s (“righteous, just, right, justifiable”), corresponding to right +? -wise (with assimilation of second element to -ous), or to right +? wise (“way, manner”). Cognate with Scots richtwis (“righteous”), Old High German rehtw?sic (“righteous, just”), Icelandic réttvíss (“righteous, just”). Compare also thefteous, mighteous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?t??s/
- Rhymes: -a?t??s
Adjective
righteous (comparative more righteous, superlative most righteous)
- Free from sin or guilt.
- Moral and virtuous, to the point of sanctimonious.
- Justified morally.
- righteous indignation
- (slang, US) Awesome; great.
- 1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story (page 191)
- He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
- 1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story (page 191)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
righteous (third-person singular simple present righteouses, present participle righteousing, simple past and past participle righteoused)
- To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 101:
- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 101:
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