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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accepted, acclaimed, admired, admitted, advantaged, advocated, affluent, applauded, approved, auspicious, backed, better, blessed, blessed with luck, chartered, choice, chosen, cried up, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, favoring, favorite, fortunate, highly touted, immune, in good odor, in luck, irresponsible, let off, licensed, lucky, more desirable, of choice, permitted, pet, popular, preferable, preferential, preferred, preferring, privileged, prosperous, providential, received, recommended, released, rich, selected, spared, supported, to be preferred, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject, wealthy, well-liked, well-thought-of
Dictionary Results for favored:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
favored
    adj 1: preferred above all others and treated with partiality;
           "the favored child" [syn: favored, favorite(a),
           favourite(a), best-loved, pet, preferred,
           preferent]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Favored \Fa"vored\ (f[=a]"v[~e]rd), a.
   1. Countenanced; aided; regarded with kindness; as, a favored
      friend.
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   2. Having a certain favor or appearance; featured; as,
      well-favored; hard-favored, etc.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Favor \Fa"vor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Favored (f[=a]"v[~e]rd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Favoring.] [Written also favour.] [Cf. OF.
   favorer, favorir. See Favor, n.]
   1. 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 treat with consideration or tenderness;
      to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
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            O happy youth! and favored of the skies. --Pope.
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            He that favoreth Joab, . . . let him go after Joab.
                                                  --2 Sam. xx.
                                                  11.
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            [The painter] has favored her squint admirably.
                                                  --Swift.
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   2. To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a
      weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
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   3. To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of;
      as, the child favors his father.
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            The porter owned that the gentleman favored his
            master.                               --Spectator.
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