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advantageous
[ ad-vuhn-tey-juhs ]
adjective
- providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial:
an advantageous position;
an advantageous treaty.
advantageous
/ ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs /
adjective
- producing advantage
Derived Forms
- ˌadvanˈtageousness, noun
- ˌadvanˈtageously, adverb
Other Words From
- advan·tageous·ly adverb
- advan·tageous·ness noun
- nonad·van·tageous adjective
- nonad·van·tageous·ly adverb
- nonad·van·tageous·ness noun
- quasi-advan·tageous adjective
- quasi-advan·tageous·ly adverb
- unad·van·tageous adjective
- unad·van·tageous·ly adverb
- unad·van·tageous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of advantageous1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
During times of crisis, they share advantageous genes with one another like children sharing candies.
In their 2019 paper Holm and Rotenberg found that some drawings provide a more advantageous starting position for inserting an edge than others.
She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”
Teams may put more than one racer on the road at a time if they feel it will be advantageous.
This 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.
And 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.
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.
Among the lower animals new and advantageous ideas are probably of exceedingly rare occurrence.
It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other mens opinions than to bring them over to ours.
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