advantageous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective giving an advantage
    • a contract advantageous to our country
    • socially advantageous to entertain often
  2. adjective satellite appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

WordNet

Ad`van*ta"geous adjective
Etymology
F. avantageux, fr. avantage.
Definitions
  1. Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
    Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott.
    You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

Webster 1913