ADVANTAGEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advantageous mean? 

• ADVANTAGEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective ADVANTAGEOUS has 2 senses:

1. giving an advantage

2. appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

  Familiarity information: ADVANTAGEOUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVANTAGEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Giving an advantage

Synonyms:

advantageous; favorable; favourable

Context example:

socially advantageous to entertain often

Similar:

beneficial; good (promoting or enhancing well-being)

plus; positive (involving advantage or good)

discriminatory; preferential (manifesting partiality)

Also:

expedient (serving to promote your interest)

opportune (suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose)

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Antonym:

disadvantageous (involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness)

Derivation:

advantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)

advantageousness (the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

Similar:

expedient (serving to promote your interest)

 Context examples 

It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Education is costly; and even if it were not, and I could afford it, I am of opinion that it would not be at all advantageous to you to be kept at school.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We are also prepared to make a most advantageous offer for bringing them out in book-form.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Advantageous as would be the alliance, and long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not be sacrificed to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Expressing something as positive, advantageous or desired.

(Favorable, NCI Thesaurus)

The connection was certainly a respectable one, and probably gained her consideration among her friends; and, if nothing more advantageous occurred, it would be better for her to marry YOU than be single.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

An advantageous side-effect of a graft-vs-host reaction in which a leukemia patient is first irradiated to kill residual leukemic cells and is then given a bone marrow graft to replenish the immune system.

(Graft-vs-Leukemia Effect, NCI Thesaurus)

For Harriet, it would be advantageous and delightful indeed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Henry and Eleanor, perceiving nothing in her situation likely to engage their father's particular respect, had seen with astonishment the suddenness, continuance, and extent of his attention; and though latterly, from some hints which had accompanied an almost positive command to his son of doing everything in his power to attach her, Henry was convinced of his father's believing it to be an advantageous connection, it was not till the late explanation at Northanger that they had the smallest idea of the false calculations which had hurried him on.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)