advantageous

English

Etymology

From advantage +‎ -ous or from Middle French avantageus (French avantageux). See advantage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌædvənˈteɪd͡ʒ(i)əs/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ʌdˈvɑːɳˌʈeːd͡ʒ(ɪ)jʌs/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒəs
• Hyphenation: ad‧van‧ta‧geous

Adjective

advantageous (comparative more advantageous, superlative most advantageous)

1. Being of advantage, beneficial.

   Synonyms: expedient, furthersome, gainful, profitable, useful

   • 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 324:

     Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway: [...]

Derived terms

• advantageously
• advantageousness
• nonadvantageous
• unadvantageous

Translations

being of advantage — see also beneficial

• Armenian: շահավետ (hy) (šahavet), նպաստավոր (hy) (npastavor)
• Asturian: ventayosu, ventaxosu
• Belarusian: выгадны (vyhadny), выгодны (vyhódny)
• Bulgarian: изгоден (bg) (izgoden), благоприятен (bg) (blagoprijaten)
• Catalan: avantatjós
• Czech: výhodný (cs)
• Danish: fordelagtig (da)
• Esperanto: avantaĝa
• Finnish: edullinen (fi), hyödyllinen (fi)
• Galician: vantaxoso
• German: vorteilhaft (de)
• Greek: πλεονεκτικός (el) (pleonektikós)
• Hungarian: előnyös (hu)
• Irish: buntáisteach
• Italian: vantaggioso (it)
• Japanese: 有利な (ja) (ゆうりな, yūri na)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fordelaktig

  Nynorsk: fordelaktig

• Polish: korzystny (pl), awantażowny (dated), awantażowny (dated)
• Portuguese: vantajoso (pt)
• Romanian: avantajos (ro)
• Russian: вы́годный (ru) (výgodnyj), благоприя́тный (ru) (blagoprijátnyj)
• Spanish: ventajoso (es), provechoso (es), beneficioso (es), proficuo
• Swedish: fördelaktig (sv), förmånlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: вигідний (vyhidnyj), сприятливий (spryjatlyvyj)