"advantageous" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌædvənˈteɪd͡ʒəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-advantageous.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more advantageous [comparative], most advantageous [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪdʒəs Etymology: advantage + -ous or from Middle French avantageus (French avantageux). See advantage. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|advantage|ous}} advantage + -ous, {{bor|en|frm|avantageus}} Middle French avantageus, {{m|fr|avantageux}} avantageux Head templates: {{en-adj}} advantageous (comparative more advantageous, superlative most advantageous)
  1. Being of advantage, beneficial. Synonyms: behooveful, furthersome, gainful, profitable, useful Derived forms: advantageously, advantageousness, nonadvantageous, unadvantageous Translations (being of advantage — see also beneficial): շահավետ (šahavet) (Armenian), նպաստավոր (npastavor) (Armenian), ventayosu (Asturian), ventaxosu (Asturian), выгадны (vyhadny) (Belarusian), выгодны (vyhódny) (Belarusian), изгоден (izgoden) (Bulgarian), благоприятен (blagoprijaten) (Bulgarian), avantatjós (Catalan), výhodný (Czech), fordelagtig (Danish), avantaĝa (Esperanto), edullinen (Finnish), hyödyllinen (Finnish), vantaxoso (Galician), vorteilhaft (German), πλεονεκτικός (pleonektikós) (Greek), előnyös (Hungarian), buntáisteach (Irish), vantaggioso (Italian), 有利な (yūri na) (alt: ゆうりな) (Japanese), fordelaktig (Norwegian Bokmål), fordelaktig (Norwegian Nynorsk), korzystny (Polish), awantażowny [dated] (Polish), vantajoso (Portuguese), avantajos (Romanian), вы́годный (výgodnyj) (Russian), благоприя́тный (blagoprijátnyj) (Russian), ventajoso (Spanish), provechoso (Spanish), beneficioso (Spanish), fördelaktig (Swedish), förmånlig (Swedish), вигідний (vyhidnyj) (Ukrainian), сприятливий (spryjatlyvyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-advantageous-en-adj-8ncBl4mX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ous

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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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        },
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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          "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "նպաստավոր"
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "выгодны"
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "изгоден"
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "vorteilhaft"
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      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "благоприя́тный"
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      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "fördelaktig"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "förmånlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vyhidnyj",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "вигідний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spryjatlyvyj",
      "sense": "being of advantage — see also beneficial",
      "word": "сприятливий"
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  "word": "advantageous"
}

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