Word Meanings - ADVANTAGEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation

Additional info about word: ADVANTAGEOUS

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADVANTAGEOUS)

• Beneficial
• Profitable
• salutary
• advantageous
• wholesome
• salubrious
• Favorable
• Permissive
• indulgent
• propitious
• concessive
• partial
• fond
• liberal
• auspicious
• friendly
• Gainful
• beneficial
• winning
• desirable
• useful
• productive
• remunerative
• lucrative
• Serviceable
• Useful
• benetidal
• profitable
• sound
• well-conditioned

Related words: (words related to ADVANTAGEOUS)

• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• CONCESSIVELY
  By way of concession.
• WINNOW
  comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• REMUNERATIVE
  Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• WINNINGNESS
  The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• PERMISSIVE
  1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton. 2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• WINNER
  One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• WINNOWING
  The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
• WINNARD
  The redwing.
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• INSALUTARY
  1. Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health. 2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.