to advantage

1. 1.

   in a manner that uses the most flattering or best aspects of

   “the dress brought out her figure to advantage”

Questions about to advantage

What does to advantage mean?

to advantage means "in a manner that uses the most flattering or best aspects of".

Is to advantage a common word?

to advantage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.