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advantageous

advantageous

27 3.5
Helping you get a better result
  • adjective
  • /ˌæd.vænˈteɪ.dʒəs/
translation icon : ventajoso
  • This could prove very advantageous for us.
  • mutually advantageous
  • advantageous position
  • more advantageous

And he goes on, it's very advantageous to show him both.

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Examples

  • Multinational corporations are usually in an advantageous position when competing against local companies.

  • Surely, President Walker, it might be more advantageous to be a little more diplomatic.

  • Do you not see how advantageous your situation is?

  • Later, he began talking about a highly advantageous job he had been offered in Africa.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Would it be advantageous to look into purchasing my own building?

  • The government claims that the united market will be advantageous for the Netherlands, but he doubts it.

    Academic text (1991)
  • What places some rural inhabitants in an advantageous position relative to others?

    Academic text (1993)
  • Multinational corporations are usually in an advantageous position when competing against local companies.

    Academic text (2008)
  • This could prove very advantageous for us.

  • Later, he began talking about a highly advantageous job he had been offered in Africa.

Synonyms

useful
vsadvantageous
947 1.0

Helps you do practical tasks or solve a problem

focuses more on giving a measurable benefit than mere practicality
beneficial
vsadvantageous
138 3.4

Making something better or producing a good result

gives a clear benefit or helpful result beyond general goodness
favorable
vsadvantageous
  • US
73 3.1

Giving an advantage that makes success more likely

offers a direct benefit to someone rather than only good conditions
ameliorative
vsadvantageous
1 8.9

That helps make a situation better

is concerned with giving a direct benefit rather than only improvement
benefic
vsadvantageous
  • Formal
9.9

Having a good effect on people or things

provides an actual benefit rather than only a helpful influence
amelioratory
vsadvantageous
9.2

Intended to make something better

is about providing a concrete benefit rather than just intending change

Antonyms

Causing problems that make someone or something worse off

How Advantageous

beneficial
138 3.4
advantageous
27 3.5
helpful
689 1.0
harmful
161 2.6

Surface Forms

advantageous positive

Morphology

advantageous = advantage (transparent) = advantage + ous

Formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-ous' to the noun 'advantage'; meaning 'having or providing an advantage' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Advantageous comes from advantage, which at first meant being 'in front' or in a better position, the same idea you see in advance. So something advantageous gives a benefit or puts you in a better position.