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.