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ADVANTAGEOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Giving an advantage
Example:
socially advantageous to entertain often
Synonyms:
advantageous; favorable; favourable
Classified under:
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
Classified under:
Similar:
expedient (serving to promote your interest)
Context examples:
As I shall not have occasion to refer either to her or her sister again, I may as well mention here, that Georgiana made an advantageous match with a wealthy worn-out man of fashion, and that Eliza actually took the veil, and is at this day superior of the convent where she passed the period of her novitiate, and which she endowed with her fortune.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Sir Thomas, however, was truly happy in the prospect of an alliance so unquestionably advantageous, and of which he heard nothing but the perfectly good and agreeable.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
For I have always borne that laudable partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis, with so much justice, recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and beauties in the most advantageous light.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She seems a most valuable woman indeed—Her house, her style of living, all bespeak an exceeding good income; and it is an acquaintance that has not only been of great use to you hitherto, but in the end may prove materially advantageous.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He could not but wonder at her refusing to do anything for a niece whom she had been so forward to adopt; but, as she took early care to make him, as well as Lady Bertram, understand that whatever she possessed was designed for their family, he soon grew reconciled to a distinction which, at the same time that it was advantageous and complimentary to them, would enable him better to provide for Fanny himself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I entreated this illustrious person, to intercede in my behalf with his majesty, for leave to depart; which he accordingly did, as he was pleased to tell me, with regret: for indeed he had made me several offers very advantageous, which, however, I refused, with expressions of the highest acknowledgment.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it—and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
His mind, now disengaged from the cares which had pressed on him at first, was at leisure to find the Grants and their young inmates really worth visiting; and though infinitely above scheming or contriving for any the most advantageous matrimonial establishment that could be among the apparent possibilities of any one most dear to him, and disdaining even as a littleness the being quick-sighted on such points, he could not avoid perceiving, in a grand and careless way, that Mr. Crawford was somewhat distinguishing his niece—nor perhaps refrain (though unconsciously) from giving a more willing assent to invitations on that account.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
About three weeks after this exploit, there arrived a solemn embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of a peace, which was soon concluded, upon conditions very advantageous to our emperor, wherewith I shall not trouble the reader.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
