English > advantageous: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Giving an advantage. |
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| Examples | - "a contract advantageous to our country"
- "socially advantageous to entertain often"
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| Synonyms | favorable, favourable |
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| Narrower | beneficial, good | Promoting or enhancing well-being |
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| discriminatory, preferential | manifesting partiality |
| plus, positive | Involving advantage or good |
| See also | expedient | Serving to promote your interest |
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| opportune | Suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose |
| profitable | Yielding material gain or profit |
| Opposite | disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfavourable | constituting a disadvantage |
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| Spanish | favorable, idóneo, provechoso, ventajoso |
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| Catalan | avantatjós, favorable, idoni |
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| Nouns | advantage | the quality of having a superior or more favorable position |
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| advantageousness | the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome |
| Adverbs | advantageously | in a manner affording benefit or advantage |
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