favors

The word “favors” has 2 syllables: fa-vors

It's pronounced as /ˈfeɪvərz/


What is synonym and antonym for favors?

In the thesaurus, “favors” has 196 synonyms and 112 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for favors along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for favors

  • abets
  • acceptations
  • accepts
  • accessions
  • acclaims
  • acclamations
  • accommodates
  • accords
  • accounts
  • admirations
  • admires
  • adorations
  • adores
  • adulations
  • advantages
  • affections
  • agreements
  • aids
  • amazements
  • appeases
  • appetites
  • applauds
  • appreciates
  • appreciations
  • approbations
  • approvals
  • assents
  • assists
  • attachments
  • attends
  • awards
  • awes
  • backings
  • bears
  • benedictions
  • benefits
  • benevolences
  • bents
  • bequeaths
  • biases
  • biasses
  • blesses
  • blessings
  • boons
  • cachets
  • cherishes
  • chooses
  • clean bills of health
  • clothes
  • coddles
  • comforts
  • commends
  • conciliates
  • concurrences
  • consents
  • countenances
  • courtesies
  • covers
  • covets
  • craves
  • cravings
  • culls
  • deferences
  • delights
  • desires
  • devotions
  • digs
  • dispensations
  • empowers
  • enables
  • endorsements
  • endows
  • endues
  • endures
  • enhances
  • enjoyments
  • enjoys
  • enriches
  • enthusiasms
  • equips
  • esteems
  • estimations
  • fancies
  • finalizations
  • formalizations
  • gifts
  • gladdens
  • godsends
  • goes for
  • goes in for
  • goodwills
  • graces
  • grants
  • gratifies
  • gustoes
  • handpicks
  • heightens
  • helps
  • hero worships
  • holds with
  • homages
  • homologations
  • honors
  • humors
  • idolatries
  • imprimaturs
  • inclinations
  • indorsements
  • indues
  • indulgences
  • indulges
  • infatuations
  • interests
  • invests
  • is partial to
  • lauds
  • leanings
  • liberties
  • licences
  • licenses
  • likes
  • likings
  • lionizations
  • longings
  • love affairs
  • loves
  • mannas
  • mercies
  • mollifies
  • mollycoddles
  • names
  • nods
  • obliges
  • okays
  • oks
  • pacifies
  • palates
  • pampers
  • partialities
  • passions
  • pats on the back
  • picks
  • placates
  • pleases
  • praises
  • preferences
  • prefers
  • prejudices
  • privileges
  • prizes
  • propensities
  • props
  • provides
  • ratifications
  • recommends
  • regards
  • relieves
  • relishes
  • respects
  • reverences
  • rubber stamps
  • salutes
  • sanctions
  • satisfactions
  • satisfies
  • selects
  • services
  • shines
  • stands by
  • succors
  • supplies
  • supports
  • sustains
  • takes
  • takes kindly to
  • tastes
  • teeth
  • tendencies
  • thirsts
  • thumbs-ups
  • tolerates
  • treasures
  • turns
  • upholds
  • uses
  • values
  • venerations
  • votes
  • waivers
  • wants
  • weaknesses
  • wills
  • wonderments
  • wonders
  • worships
  • yens

Antonyms for favors

  • abhors
  • abominates
  • abominations
  • antipathies
  • apathies
  • aversions
  • blacklists
  • bothers
  • burdens
  • censures
  • condemnations
  • condemns
  • constrains
  • contempts
  • criticisms
  • criticizes
  • damns
  • declines
  • denounces
  • denunciations
  • depletes
  • deprecates
  • deprecations
  • depreciates
  • depreciations
  • deserts
  • detestations
  • detests
  • disappointments
  • disappoints
  • disapprobations
  • disapprovals
  • discards
  • discommodes
  • discontents
  • discountenances
  • disdains
  • disenchantments
  • disfavors
  • disgruntlements
  • disgusts
  • disillusionments
  • disinclinations
  • dislikes
  • disobliges
  • disparagements
  • disparages
  • displeasures
  • dispossesses
  • disregards
  • dissatisfactions
  • distastes
  • disturbs
  • divests
  • drains
  • encumbers
  • exhausts
  • fails
  • frustrates
  • hampers
  • hamstrings
  • hates
  • hatreds
  • hinders
  • hindrances
  • hobbles
  • holds back
  • hurdles
  • impedes
  • impediments
  • incommodes
  • inconveniences
  • indifferences
  • indignations
  • interferences
  • jettisons
  • lets down
  • loathes
  • loathings
  • minds
  • mislikes
  • nauseas
  • obstacles
  • obstructs
  • opposes
  • opprobriums
  • refusals
  • refuses
  • rejections
  • rejects
  • reprehends
  • reprehensions
  • reproaches
  • reprobates
  • reprobations
  • repudiations
  • repugnances
  • repulsions
  • restrains
  • revulsions
  • sabotages
  • saddles
  • scorns
  • skimps
  • stints
  • strips
  • throws away
  • throws out
  • thwarts
  • troubles
  • turns down
  • weighs

Meanings of favors

  • noun
    1. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
    2. Goodwill; benevolent regard.
    3. A small gift; a party favor.
    4. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
    5. The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
    6. Appearance; look; countenance; face.
    7. Partiality; bias.
    8. A letter, a written communication.
    9. Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
    10. (in the plural) Lovelocks.
  • verb
    1. To look upon fondly; to prefer.
    2. To encourage, conduce to.
    3. To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
    4. To treat with care.
    5. (including) To resemble, to look like (another person).

Example Sentences

  • She often favors her left hand when writing.
  • The company favors eco-friendly products in its policies.
  • He always favors honesty in his business dealings.
  • This recipe favors spicy flavors over sweet ones.
  • The judge favors leniency in cases involving first-time offenders.

On this page you'll find 308 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to favors, such as: abets, abhors, abominates, abominations, acceptations, accepts, accessions.

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Related Words

abetments

  • advancements
  • advice
  • aids
  • assistances
  • assists
  • assuagements
  • attendances
  • attentions
  • backings
  • benefactions
  • beneficences
  • boosts
  • care
  • charities
  • counsel
  • encouragements
  • facilitations
  • favors
  • furtherances
  • guidance
  • hand-holdings
  • hands
  • help
  • helping hands
  • legs up
  • lifts
  • nurturances
  • palliations
  • patronages
  • philanthropies
  • promotions
  • reliefs
  • services
  • sponsorships
  • succors
  • supports

abets

  • activates
  • advances
  • advises
  • aids
  • assists
  • attends
  • backs
  • backstops
  • bails out
  • bears a hand
  • benefits
  • bolsters
  • boosts
  • brews
  • buttresses
  • champions
  • comforts
  • counsels
  • cultivates
  • delivers
  • detonates
  • eases
  • emboldens
  • encourages
  • endorses
  • energizes
  • enflames
  • enlivens
  • excites
  • facilitates
  • favors
  • ferments
  • fires
  • foments
  • forwards
  • fosters
  • furthers
  • galvanizes
  • guides
  • heartens
  • helps
  • incites
  • indorses
  • inflames
  • inspires
  • instigates
  • invigorates
  • launches
  • mentors
  • motivates
  • nourishes
  • nurtures
  • obliges
  • patronizes
  • picks
  • profits
  • promotes
  • provokes
  • quickens
  • raises
  • reenforces
  • reinforces
  • rescues
  • rouses
  • saves
  • serves
  • sets
  • sets in motion
  • sets off
  • sows
  • sponsors
  • stands one in good stead
  • stimulates
  • succors
  • supports
  • sustains
  • triggers
  • vitalizes

backings

  • abetments
  • advancements
  • advice
  • aegises
  • aids
  • assistances
  • assists
  • assuagements
  • attendances
  • attentions
  • auspices
  • benefactions
  • beneficences
  • boosts
  • care
  • charities
  • counsel
  • egises
  • encouragements
  • endowments
  • facilitations
  • favors
  • financings
  • fosterages
  • furtherances
  • guidance
  • hand-holdings
  • hands
  • help
  • helping hands
  • legs up
  • lifts
  • nurturances
  • palliations
  • patronages
  • philanthropies
  • promotions
  • reliefs
  • services
  • sponsorships
  • subsidies
  • succors
  • supports

facilitations

  • abetments
  • advancements
  • advice
  • aids
  • assistances
  • assists
  • assuagements
  • attendances
  • attentions
  • backings
  • benefactions
  • beneficences
  • boosts
  • care
  • charities
  • counsel
  • encouragements
  • favors
  • furtherances
  • guidance
  • hand-holdings
  • hands
  • help
  • helping hands
  • legs up
  • lifts
  • nurturances
  • palliations
  • patronages
  • philanthropies
  • promotions
  • reliefs
  • services
  • sponsorships
  • succors
  • supports

habitudes

  • addictions
  • affectations
  • affections
  • affinities
  • airs
  • appetites
  • aptitudes
  • attributes
  • bags
  • bents
  • biases
  • bones
  • characteristics
  • conventions
  • customs
  • deportments
  • devices
  • dispositions
  • drills
  • eccentricities
  • endowments
  • faculties
  • fancies
  • fashions
  • favors
  • flairs
  • forms
  • fortes
  • genii
  • geniuses
  • gifts
  • grooves
  • habits
  • idiosyncrasies
  • impulses
  • inclinations
  • jog trots
  • kinks
  • knacks
  • leanings
  • likes
  • likings
  • manners
  • marks
  • modes
  • mores
  • oddities
  • partialities
  • partisanships
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • penchants
  • poses
  • practices
  • practises
  • predilections
  • predispositions
  • preferences
  • prejudices
  • proclivities
  • propensities
  • quirks
  • regimens
  • regimes
  • rituals
  • rotes
  • routines
  • ruts
  • sets
  • singularities
  • specialities
  • specialties
  • styles
  • talents
  • tastes
  • tendencies
  • tenors
  • tics
  • traits
  • tricks
  • turns
  • usages
  • uses
  • ways
  • wonts

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