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favoured

Syllables: fa·vouredUK/ˈfeɪ.vəd//ˈfeɪ.vɚd/

favoured adjective: treated or regarded with partiality. Also the simple past and past participle of favour.

Adjective

favoured (comparative more favoured, superlative most favoured)

  1. Treated or regarded with partiality.
  2. (in-compounds) Having a certain appearance or physical features.
    • ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured
  3. (dated) Wearing a favour.
    • a white-favoured footman

Also used as

favoured is also the simple past and past participle of favour.

favoured meaning in Nepali

favoured in Nepali

मन पराइएको

Forms of favoured

comparativemore favoured
superlativemost favoured
alternative formfavored
alternative formfavor’d
alternative formfavour’d

Words formed from favoured

Phrases with favoured

Questions about favoured

What does favoured mean?
Favoured means treated or regarded with partiality.
What is favoured in Nepali?
Favoured in Nepali is मन पराइएको. See Favoured meaning in Nepali.
What part of speech is favoured?
Favoured is an adjective.
How do you pronounce favoured?
Favoured is pronounced /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/ (US).

Words near favoured in the dictionary

  1. favourable
  2. favourableness
  3. favourables
  4. favourablest
  5. favourably
  6. favoured
  7. favouredly
  8. favouredness
  9. favourer
  10. favourers
  11. favourest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: favoured (page history and authors); favoured (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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