advantageous

1. 1.

   giving an advantage

   “a contract advantageous to our country”

   “socially advantageous to entertain often”

   Synonymsfavorablefavourable

   Antonymsdisadvantageous

   Similarbeneficialplusdiscriminatory
2. 2.

   appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

   Similarexpedient

Questions about advantageous

What does advantageous mean?

advantageous means "giving an advantage". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in advantageous?

advantageous has 4 syllables: ad-van-ta-geous. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs/.

What is another word for advantageous?

Close synonyms include favorable, favourable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of advantageous?

The recorded antonyms are disadvantageous.

Is advantageous a common word?

advantageous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with advantageous?

2 words rhyme with advantageous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.