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Word Meanings - WELL-FAVORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Handsome; wellformed; beautiful; pleasing to the eye. Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. Gen. xxix. 17.

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  • BEAUTIFUL
    Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
  • FAVOR
    Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
  • FAVORITE
    Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
  • HANDSOMELY
    Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
  • FAVORABLE
    1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
  • PLEASER
    One who pleases or gratifies.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • PLEASANTNESS
    The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • PLEASURIST
    A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
  • FAVOREDNESS
    Appearance.
  • HANDSOMENESS
    The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
  • PLEASURER
    A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
  • FAVORED
    1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kidness; as, a favored friend. 2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as, well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
  • FAVORER
    One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
  • PLEASURELESS
    Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
  • HANDSOME
    -some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam dexterous, 1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. That they be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson . For
  • FAVORITISM
    The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. A. Hamilton.
  • PLEASURE
    1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain,
  • PLEASUREFUL
    Affording pleasure.
  • TRACHELORRHAPHY
    The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
  • TRACHELIPOD
    One of the Trachelipoda.
  • TRACHELIDAN
    Any one of a tribe of beetles which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
  • OVERPLEASE
    To please excessively.
  • UNFAVORABLE
    Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
  • DISPLEASANCE
    Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. Chaucer.
  • DISFAVORABLY
    Unpropitiously.
  • UNHANDSOME
    1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward. 2. Wanting noble
  • EVIL-FAVORED
    Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.

 

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