Dictionary Entry
favor
favor is a 5-letter English word with 22 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
- 2noun
The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
- 3noun
A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
- 4noun
Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
- 5noun
The object of regard; person or thing favored.
- 6noun
A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
- 7noun
Appearance; look; countenance; face.
- 8noun
Partiality; bias.
- 9noun
A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
- 10noun
Love locks.
- 11noun
To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
- 12noun
To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
- 13noun
To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
- 14noun
an act of gracious kindness
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- 15noun
souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
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- 16noun
an advantage to the benefit of someone or something
"the outcome was in his favor"
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- 17noun
an inclination to approve
"that style is in favor this season"
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- 18noun
a feeling of favorable regard
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- 19verb
consider as the favorite
"The local team was favored"
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- 20verb
promote over another
"he favors his second daughter"
- 21verb
bestow a privilege upon
- 22verb
treat gently or carefully
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