advantageous
providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial: an advantageous position;an advantageous treaty.
Origin of advantageous
1Other words from advantageous
- ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb
- ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun
- non·ad·van·ta·geous, adjective
- non·ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb
- non·ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun
- qua·si-ad·van·ta·geous, adjective
- qua·si-ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb
- un·ad·van·ta·geous, adjective
- un·ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb
- un·ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun
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How to use advantageous in a sentence
The Wizards can initiate dramatic change or be forced to do so at a less advantageous time.
The Wizards’ reboot needs to start with trading both John Wall and Bradley Beal | Jerry Brewer | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostSuch shrinking may be the result of less available food on an island, making smaller bodies more advantageous.
Guttural toads shrank by a third after just 100 years on two islands | Jake Buehler | November 19, 2020 | Science NewsIn that case, ancient humans new to the region’s thin air may have acquired advantageous genetic traits for that environment by mating with resident Denisovans.
The first Denisovan DNA outside Siberia unveils a long stint on the roof of the world | Bruce Bower | October 29, 2020 | Science NewsThey do not develop advantageous traits, which would require growth and division.
Preserving a Sense of Wonder in DNA - Issue 92: Frontiers | Virat Markandeya | October 28, 2020 | NautilusAnimals could evolve only as fast as advantageous genes could arise and spread, and as existing genomes could be reshuffled through sexual reproduction.
When Evolution Is Infectious - Issue 90: Something Green | Moises Velasquez-Manoff | September 30, 2020 | Nautilus
Peruvian guano is most advantageously applied as a top-dressing to young corn and particularly to oats.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonBut they are little used as manures, as they can generally be more advantageously employed for feeding.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonIt is a useful absorbent of liquid manure, and may be advantageously added to the dung-heap for that purpose.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonIn the last Act a good deal of gunpowder is burned advantageously to the simplification of the issue.
That which one missed might be advantageously secured by the other, and it was to their interest to meet and converse.
Michael Strogoff | Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for advantageous
/ (ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs) /
producing advantage
Derived forms of advantageous
- advantageously, adverb
- advantageousness, noun
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