advantageous
Syllables: ad·van·ta·geous/ˌædvənˈteɪd͡ʒ(i)əs/
advantageous adjective: being of advantage, beneficial.
Adjective
advantageous (comparative more advantageous, superlative most advantageous)
- Being of advantage, beneficial.
- Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway: [...]1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 324
- Synonyms:
- expedient, furthersome, gainful, profitable, useful, plus, favorable
advantageous meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
advantageous in Hindi
- being of advantage — see also beneficial
- लाभप्रद lābhaprad, लाभकारी lābhkārī, लाभदायक lābhdāyak, लाभदायी lābhdāyī
advantageous in Urdu
- فائدہ مند, مفید, سود مند
advantageous in Bengali
- সুবিধাজনক
advantageous in Malayalam
- superior, powerful, dominant
- പ്രയോജനകരമായ, മേന്മയുള്ള, ശ്രേഷ്ഠമായ, പ്രബലമായ, മുന്തിനില്ക്കുന്ന, ശക്തിയുള്ള
- beneficial, of benefit, useful
- ഗുണമുള്ള, ഗുണം ചെയ്യുന്ന, ഗുണകരമായ, പ്രയോജനമുള്ള, ഗുണഫലമുണ്ടാകുന്ന, ഉപയോഗമുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
- advantageous in Kannada
- ಪ್ರಯೋಜನಕಾರಿಯಾದ, ಅನುಕೂಲಕರವಾದ
- advantageous in Odia
- ଲାଭପ୍ରଦ
- advantageous in Sanskrit
- हित hitá
- advantageous in Nepali
- लाभप्रद
Examples of advantageous in a sentence
- Those structures stymie evolution by denying advantageous mutations any chance to take over a population.
- CSS models are also advantageous for detecting a given QTL in the presence of many other QTLs.
- Its effects are not advantageous to itself, but only to the propagandist.
Synonyms of advantageous
Forms of advantageous
| comparative | more advantageous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most advantageous |
Origin of advantageous
From advantage + -ous or from Middle French avantageus (French avantageux). See advantage.
Words formed from advantageous
Words that rhyme with advantageous
Questions about advantageous
- What does advantageous mean?
- Advantageous means being of advantage, beneficial.
- What is advantageous in Hindi?
- Advantageous in Hindi is लाभप्रद (lābhaprad), लाभकारी (lābhkārī), लाभदायक (lābhdāyak). See Advantageous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is advantageous?
- Advantageous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce advantageous?
- Advantageous is pronounced /ˌædvənˈteɪd͡ʒ(i)əs/.
Words near advantageous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: advantageous (page history and authors); advantageous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); advantageous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); advantageous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); advantageous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); advantageous (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); हित (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); advantageous (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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