different between favourable vs rosy
favourable
English
Alternative forms
- favorable (American)
Etymology
Middle English, from Old French favorable, from Latin favorabilis, from favor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe?v(?)??b?l/
Adjective
favourable (comparative more favourable, superlative most favourable)
- Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- Synonyms: approving, encouraging, good, pleasing
- Antonyms: bad, discouraging, displeasing, unfavorable
- Useful or helpful.
- Synonyms: advantageous, helpful, useful
- Antonym: unhelpful
- Convenient or at a suitable time; opportune.
- Synonyms: convenient, good, handy, opportune, suitable
- Antonyms: bad, inconvenient, inopportune, unsuitable
- Auspicious or lucky.
- Synonyms: auspicious, fortunate, lucky
- Antonyms: inauspicious, unfavourable, unlucky
Derived terms
- unfavourable
Related terms
- favour
- favourably
Translations
favourable From the web:
- what favourable personality do i have
- what favourable meaning in english
- favourable meaning
- what's favourable in german
- what favourable climate mean
- what is favourable balance of trade
- what does favourable balance of trade refer to
- what is favourable for physical adsorption
rosy
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??o?zi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????zi/
- Rhymes: -??zi
Etymology 1
From rose +? -y
Adjective
rosy (comparative rosier, superlative rosiest)
- Rose-coloured.
- If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
- Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume.
- (figuratively) Optimistic.
Derived terms
- paint a rosy picture
Translations
Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang, Rosie Lee.
Alternative forms
- Rosie (more common spelling, as per the etymology)
Noun
rosy (uncountable)
- (slang, Britain) tea
- I wish a cup of Rosy.
- I fancy a cup of rosy lee.
Anagrams
- Syro-, roys, sory
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ros?]
Noun
rosy f
- genitive singular of rosa
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r?s?]
Noun
rosy
- dative singular of rosa
- locative singular of rosa
- nominative dual of rosa
- accusative dual of rosa
Malagasy
Noun
rosy
- The Russian language.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?.s?/
Noun
rosy f
- inflection of rosa:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
rosy From the web:
- what rose colors mean
- what rosemary good for
- what rose ceremony are we on
- what roses mean
- what rose dramatically in the early 1920s
- what rose means death
- what roses are edible
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- favourable vs rosy
- tease vs vamp
- revolter vs guerilla
- sinister vs heinous
- assembly vs concentration
- trouble vs bully
- displeasing vs uninviting
- young vs lineage
- shove vs forge
- fissure vs fault
- soiled vs nasty
- repaired vs reconstructed
- mass vs brightness
- amalgam vs stew
- commit vs restrain
- caution vs consideration
- madness vs obsession
- remove vs uproot
- group vs compile
- change vs emend