advantageous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ad=van=ta=geous

CIDE DICTIONARY

advantageous, a. [F. avantageux, fr. avantage.].

 Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.  [1913 Webster]
"Advabtageous comparison with any other country."  [1913 Webster]
"You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

advantageous

acceptable, advisable, agreeable, appropriate, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, braw, breadwinning, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, congruous, contributory, convenient, decent, desirable, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, fat, favorable, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, functional, gainful, good, good for, goodly, grand, happy, healthy, helpful, in the black, instrumental, kind, laudable, likely, lucrative, meet, moneymaking, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, opportune, paying, pleasant, pleasing, politic, practical, pragmatical, productive, profitable, proper, propitious, recommendable, regal, remedial, remunerative, right, royal, salutary, satisfactory, satisfying, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound, splendid, suitable, timely, to be desired, toward, useful, utilitarian, valid, valuable, very good, virtuous, well-paying, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

ROGET THESAURUS

advantageous

Utility

N utility, usefulness, efficacy, efficiency, adequacy, service, use, stead, avail, help, applicability, subservience, function, value, worth, money's worth, productiveness, cui bono, utilization, step in the right direction, common weal, commonwealth public good, public interest, utilitarianism, useful, of use, serviceable, proficuous, good for, subservient, conducive, subsidiary, advantageous, profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt, valuable, prolific, adequate, efficient, efficacious, effective, effectual, expedient, applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible, commodious, adaptable, of all work, usefully, pro bono publico.

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.