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well-favored

well-favored is the alternative form of well-favoured.

Meaning of well-favoured

Adjective

well-favoured (comparative more well-favoured, superlative most well-favoured)

  1. (dated) Good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.
    • Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, & cryes, Do you see
      Yonder well favoured youth? Which? Oh, 'tis hee
      That dances so divinely; […]a. 1631, John Donne, Satire I
    Antonyms:
    ill-favored

Forms of well-favored

comparativemore well-favored
superlativemost well-favored

Questions about well-favored

What is well-favored the alternative form of?
Well-favored is the alternative form of well-favoured.

Words near well-favored in the dictionary

  1. well-earned
  2. well-educated
  3. well-endowed
  4. well-equipped
  5. well-established
  6. well-favored
  7. well-favoured
  8. well-favouredly
  9. well-fed
  10. well-filled
  11. well-fitted

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