Advantageous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           Advabtageous comparison with any other country.
                                                    --Prescott.
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           You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how
           swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one
           goes.                                    --Chesterfield.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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 [syn: {appropriate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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