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Advantageous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADVANTA'GEOUS, a. Being of advantage; furnishing convenience, or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position of the troops; trade is advantageous to a nation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

adjective Date: 1593 giving an advantage ; favorable <an advantageous opportunity> • advantageously adverb • advantageousness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

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.

Moby Thesaurus

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