Favorable and Negative

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Favorable

Favorable adjective - Expressing approval.
Usage example: favorable reviews for the movie were few
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Negative is an antonym for favorable.
Nearby Words: favourable, favored, favoured, favoring, favorably

Negative

Negative adjective - Marked by opposition or ill will.
Usage example: classes that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants
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Favorable is an antonym for negative in bad topic.
Nearby Words: negate, negatived, negation, negated, negativism
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  • The critics were mostly favorable to it, feeling it was fine as a children's movie, although there were also negative comparisons to Jurassic Park.
    Source: Film / T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous
  • The Underworld movies all got mediocre-to-negative reviews from critics, but all were box-office hits and audience reviews were much more favorable.
    Source: Critical Dissonance / Film
  • Video Game / Civilization Save Scumming: Across all the games, it's disturbingly easy to abuse the save feature to get favorable battle outcomes or avoid negative randomly generated events.
    Source: Video Game / Civilization
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