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favoursome

favoursome adjective: characterised or marked by favour or favouritism; acceptable, satisfactory.

Adjective

favoursome (comparative more favoursome, superlative most favoursome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by favour or favouritism; acceptable, satisfactory.
    • The second hill was easy of access but looked down on one small town only, and that none too favorsome in its appearance.2011, Gardner Dozois, The Furthest Horizon
    • Goddess of Haiti, favorsome,
      Preserve in flowering loveliness
      Your treasures' sweet delirium.2015, Doris Y. Kadish, Deborah Jenson, Poetry of Haitian Independence, page 71
    Synonyms:
    favourable

Synonyms of favoursome

Forms of favoursome

comparativemore favoursome
superlativemost favoursome
alternative formfavorsome

Origin of favoursome

From favour + -some.

Questions about favoursome

What does favoursome mean?
Favoursome means characterised or marked by favour or favouritism; acceptable, satisfactory.
What part of speech is favoursome?
Favoursome is an adjective.

Words near favoursome in the dictionary

  1. favouritizing
  2. favourize
  3. favourless
  4. favourous
  5. favours
  6. favoursome
  7. favous
  8. Favre
  9. Favre-Racouchot syndrome
  10. Favreau
  11. Favreaus

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