Word Meanings - ADVANTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
Additional info about word: ADVANTAGE
1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay. 2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11. 3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. 4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of , to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; to overreach, to outwit. Syn. -- Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a "vantage ground" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADVANTAGE)
- Account
- Narration
- report
- rehearsal
- story
- statement
- narrative
- recital
- relation
- description
- motive
- value
- importance
- advantage
- ground
- reason
- profit
- Ameliorate
- Improve
- raise
- better
- promote
- advance
- amend
- rectify
- meliorate
- Ascendancy
- Superiority
- mastery
- control
- influence
- supremacy
- sway
- domination
- authority
- Avail Suffice
- hold
- stand
- endure
- answer
- tell
- help
- benefit
- service
- use
- utility
- Avail
- Profit
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADVANTAGE)
- Disesteem
- misestimate
- mystify
- understate
- undervalue
- perplex
- darken
- Retard
- hinder
- withhold
- withdraw
- recall
- depress
- degrade
- suppress
- oppose
- retreat
- decrease
- Fail
- fall
- disappoint
- betray
- Neglect
- abandon
- license
- berate
- free
- mismanage
- misconduct
- Silence
- hush
- misreport
- misrepresent
- miarelate
- falsify
- Miscompute
- disesteem
- disregard
- vilipend
- underrate
- underestimate
- despise
- contemn
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to ADVANTAGE)
- AMENDFUL
Much improving. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - AVAILABLENESS
1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale. - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - MISMANAGER
One who manages ill. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - MISCOMPUTE
To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - MELIORATER
See MELIORATOR - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - CONTROLLABLENESS
Capability of being controlled. - NARRATION
That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale; - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.