favored
pronunciation
How to pronounce favored in British English:
UK [ˈfeɪvəd]
How to pronounce favored in American English:
US [ˈfeɪvərd]
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- Adjective:
- preferred above all others and treated with partiality
- blessed with advantages
- supremely favored or fortunate
Word Origin
- favored (adj.)
- 1725, "enjoying unusual advantages," past-participle adjective from favor (v.). In compounds, "resembling, simulating," from c. 1400 (for example, well-favored "good-looking;" worst-favored "ugliest").
Synonym
Example
- 1. In fact , there was intermittent evidence of a gender gap before 1980 : it favored the republicans .
- 2. Before that , living standards were already being eroded by stagnating wages and tax and economic policies that favored the wealthy .
- 3. A different way of breaking down investment to avoid those problems , favored by the world bank and a few other private-sector economists , is by business sector rather than type of ownership .
- 4. Because even half a million years ago , nine out of 10 european humans favored their right hands .
- 5. And 46 % of americans still favored expanded offshore drilling .