advantageously

1 5.2

In a way that gives you a benefit or helps you succeed

adverb
/ədˈvæn.tɪdʒ.əs.li/

: ventajosamente

The new marketing strategy helped the company to advantageously increase its market share in the competitive landscape.
use it advantageously

Examples

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) recently used the charrette process advantageously at two critical junctures in its long-range planning process.

Academic text (1991)
We have no great depot of traffic there, which we might advantageously move elsewhere.

Academic text (2016)
Now, if you'll do exactly as I tell you to do, everything will end advantageously.

Big Brown Eyes (1936)
Yet Isabella's attempt to sell herself advantageously fails.

Academic text (2009)
The mature children of the immigrant majority began work more advantageously by 1880 and usually improved on their parents' patterns by 1900.

Academic text (1990)
For Nimai and others, the ability to evoke classical music enabled them to impress patrons and to position themselves advantageously amid their professional rivals.

Academic text (2016)
She studied hard to prepare for the exam and it paid off advantageously when she received a scholarship.
By networking at conferences, he positioned himself advantageously for future job opportunities.

Synonyms

successfully

vsadvantageously

350 1.8

In a way that gets the result you want

emphasizes advantage and gain as the reason or manner rather than result

effectively

vsadvantageously

261 3.6

In a way that gets the result you want

highlights likelihood of benefit or gain rather than just efficiency

profitably

vsadvantageously

7 4.1

In a way that makes money or gives an advantage

is broader, covering advantage beyond just monetary or measurable profit

usefully

vsadvantageously

5 1.1

In a way that helps reach a goal

is like this but stresses advantage and likely success more clearly

optimally

vsadvantageously

5 5.9

In the best way to get the best result

is similar but can mean any advantageous manner, not only the best

effectually

vsadvantageously

1 6.9

In a way that brings the wanted result

stresses achieving advantage or gain over merely producing an effect

to advantage

vsadvantageously

1 5.0

In a way that makes someone or something look as good as possible

relates to gaining advantage or success more generally, not appearance alone

operatively

vsadvantageously

1 7.0

In a way that works well and gives the needed result

is about producing advantage or success rather than operational effectiveness

beneficially

vsadvantageously

1 4.1

In a way that helps and makes things better

is the same in meaning but often used for success or gain contexts

propitiously

vsadvantageously

Formal

8.5

In a way that makes success likely

focuses more on creating benefit rather than just favourable signs

opportunely

vsadvantageously

6.2

It happens at the right time to help someone

covers timing advantage but also other ways of producing benefit

efficaciously

vsadvantageously

Formal

8.1

In a way that gets the result you want

focuses more on gaining advantage or benefit than on reliable effect

Antonyms

disadvantageously

7.4

In a way that makes things worse for someone

How Advantageous

optimally

5 5.9

advantageously

1 5.2

disadvantageously

7.4

Surface Forms

advantageously positive

Morphology

advantageously = advantageous (transparent) = advantage + ous + ly

Forming an adverb with '-ly' from the adjective 'advantageous' is a regular, predictable process and preserves meaning.

Etymology

Advantageously comes from advantage, which comes from old words meaning 'before' or 'in front'; think of advance 'to move forward', so doing something advantageously is doing it in a way that gives you a benefit or helps you succeed.