ADVANTAGEOUS DEFINITIONS - 8 definitions found
advantageous adj 1: giving an advantage; "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often" [ant: disadvantageous] 2: appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) advantageous adjective Date: 1593 giving an advantage ; favorable <an advantageous opportunity> • advantageously adverb • advantageousness noun Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary advantageous If something is advantageous to you, it is likely to benefit you. Free exchange of goods was advantageous to all. = favourable ≠ unfavourable ADJ: oft ADJ to n Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Advantageous \Ad`van*ta"geous\, a. [F. avantageux, fr. avantage.] Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. --Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. --Chesterfield. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms advantageous a. Beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, gainful, opportune, for one's advantage, for one's interest, for one's good. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) advantageous ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs adj. profitable, worthwhile, gainful, opportune, beneficial, favourable, useful, valuable: The minister signed an advantageous treaty of commerce with Russia. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 107 Moby Thesaurus words for "advantageous": acceptable, advisable, agreeable, appropriate, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, braw, breadwinning, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, congruous, contributory, convenient, decent, desirable, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, fat, favorable, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, functional, gainful, good, good for, goodly, grand, happy, healthy, helpful, in the black, instrumental, kind, laudable, likely, lucrative, meet, moneymaking, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, opportune, paying, pleasant, pleasing, politic, practical, pragmatical, productive, profitable, proper, propitious, recommendable, regal, remedial, remunerative, right, royal, salutary, satisfactory, satisfying, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound, splendid, suitable, timely, to be desired, toward, useful, utilitarian, valid, valuable, very good, virtuous, well-paying, well-timed, wise, worthwhile |
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