advantageous
providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial: an advantageous position;an advantageous treaty.
Origin of advantageous
1Other words from advantageous
- 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
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How to use advantageous in a sentence
Somehow across time and many amphibious families, front-burrowing lifestyles became advantageous in drier environments.
Apple’s timing is also advantageous in that it coincides with India’s feud with China.
Apple finally starts selling directly to customers in the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market | Grady McGregor | September 23, 2020 | FortuneDirect 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.
Apollo’s Stephanie Drescher on running a global investment firm from her living room | reymashayekhi | September 19, 2020 | FortuneDuring times of crisis, they share advantageous genes with one another like children sharing candies.
What the Meadow Teaches Us - Issue 90: Something Green | Andreas Weber | September 16, 2020 | NautilusIn their 2019 paper Holm and Rotenberg found that some drawings provide a more advantageous starting position for inserting an edge than others.
A New Algorithm for Graph Crossings, Hiding in Plain Sight | Stephanie DeMarco | September 15, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”
Keystone Senate Failure Is Environmental Kabuki Theater | Ben Jacobs | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTeams may put more than one racer on the road at a time if they feel it will be advantageous.
Pippa Middleton To Cycle Across America ... Starting Tomorrow | Tom Sykes | June 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis means the favored candidate gets an advantageous spot on the ballot and a distinct electoral advantage in that county.
A quick release from the services could then follow, though not likely under advantageous circumstances.
Soldiers Protesting the War on Reddit Dishonor Their Oath of Service | Garrett Berntsen | September 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd it has a mutually advantageous peace treaty with Israel that no rational government is going to gamble with.
It is more advantageous to pluck the leaves when they are dry than when they are moist.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Wars in India and China, brought gloriously to an advantageous termination.
All the anthropoid apes are certainly intelligent enough to do this, if it should prove advantageous to them.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisAmong the lower animals new and advantageous ideas are probably of exceedingly rare occurrence.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisIt is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other mens opinions than to bring them over to ours.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre | Jean de La Bruyre
British Dictionary definitions for advantageous
/ (ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs) /
producing advantage
Derived forms of advantageous
- advantageously, adverb
- advantageousness, noun
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