advantageous

[ ad-vuhn-tey-juhs ]

adjective

1. providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial:

   an advantageous position;

   an advantageous treaty.

advantageous

/ ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs /

adjective

1. producing advantage

Derived Forms

• ˌadvanˈtageousness, noun
• ˌadvanˈtageously, adverb

Other Words From

• advan·tageous·ly adverb
• advan·tageous·ness noun
• nonad·van·tageous adjective
• nonad·van·tageous·ly adverb
• nonad·van·tageous·ness noun
• quasi-advan·tageous adjective
• quasi-advan·tageous·ly adverb
• unad·van·tageous adjective
• unad·van·tageous·ly adverb
• unad·van·tageous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of advantageous¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; advantage + -ous; compare French avantageux, Italian avantaggioso

Example Sentences

Somehow across time and many amphibious families, front-burrowing lifestyles became advantageous in drier environments.

From Popular-Science

Apple’s timing is also advantageous in that it coincides with India’s feud with China.

From Fortune

Direct origination is not new, but our ability to offer corporations these private credit solutions in a large-scale way is a trend advantageous to them.

From Fortune

During times of crisis, they share advantageous genes with one another like children sharing candies.

From Nautilus

In their 2019 paper Holm and Rotenberg found that some drawings provide a more advantageous starting position for inserting an edge than others.

From Quanta Magazine

She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

From The Daily Beast

Teams may put more than one racer on the road at a time if they feel it will be advantageous.

From The Daily Beast

This means the favored candidate gets an advantageous spot on the ballot and a distinct electoral advantage in that county.

From The Daily Beast

A quick release from the services could then follow, though not likely under advantageous circumstances.

From The Daily Beast

And it has a mutually advantageous peace treaty with Israel that no rational government is going to gamble with.

From The Daily Beast

It is more advantageous to pluck the leaves when they are dry than when they are moist.

From Project Gutenberg

Wars in India and China, brought gloriously to an advantageous termination.

From Project Gutenberg

All the anthropoid apes are certainly intelligent enough to do this, if it should prove advantageous to them.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the lower animals new and advantageous ideas are probably of exceedingly rare occurrence.

From Project Gutenberg

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other mens opinions than to bring them over to ours.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• auspicious
• beneficial
• expedient
• fortunate
• helpful
• opportune
• profitable
• propitious
• worthwhile