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Well-favoured

Date "well-favoured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonyms: Well-favoured

Synonyms: better-looking (adj), fine-looking (adj), good-looking (adj), handsome (adj), well-favored (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Well-favoured

"Well-favoured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-favoured" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Well-favoured

Language Translations for "well-favoured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pashëm (dashing, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable, proper, sightly, well favored). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored), красив (beauteous, beautiful, fair, good looking, goodly, handsome, personable, well favored). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

很好倾向 (Well-favored). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jó megjelenésû (goodly, well favored). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

잘 호의를 보이는 (Well-favored). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ell-favouredway

   

Portuguese

  

bem-apessoado (personable). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-featured), chipeş (finely-shaped, good looking, handsome, personable, well favored, well-made), bine fãcut (bonny, clean, good, handsome, well favored). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

красивый (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dishy, fine, flavorful, gallant, good looking, good-looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, personable, pulchritudinous, sightly, well favored). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

povoljan (advantageous, auspicious, benignant, favorable, favourable, fortunate, trine, well appointed, well favored). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

med fördelaktigt utseende. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yakışıklı (comely, good looking, handsome, personable, shapely, sightly, smart, stunner, well favored), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, nifty, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, winsome). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, attractive, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, winning, winsome). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xinh xắn (cute, dinky, prettily, pretty, well-looking), duyên dáng (airy, charming, comely, graceful, ingratiatingly, personable, smart, well-looking). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Well-favoured

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-l-l-o-r-u-v-w"

-3 letters: flavoured, overalled, woefuller.

-4 letters: aureoled, awfuller, deflower, falderol, fallowed, farewell, favoured, fellowed, flavored, flowered, freeload, fullered, laureled, louvered, overawed, overflew, overfull, overlade, overleaf, overlewd, ravelled, reavowed, reflowed, revalued, rowelled, welldoer.

-5 letters: allover, allowed, allured, aureole, dareful, devalue, dewfall, doleful, dueller, dweller, favored, federal, ferulae, feruled, flavour, floured, foulard, fuelled, fueller, leeward, louvred, lowered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Well-favoured


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 6C 6C 2D 66 61 76 6F 75 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100110 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#102 &#97 &#118 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 0066 0061 0076 006F 0075 0072 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57717878157267888187847170

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