providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial: an advantageous position; an advantageous treaty.
Origin of advantageous
1590–1600; advantage + -ous; compare French avantageux,Italian avantaggioso
Somehow across time and many amphibious families, front-burrowing lifestyles became advantageous in drier environments.
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Apple’s timing is also advantageous in that it coincides with India’s feud with China.
Apple finally starts selling directly to customers in the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market|Grady McGregor|September 23, 2020|Fortune
Direct origination is not new, but our ability to offer corporations these private credit solutions in a large-scale way is a trend advantageous to them.
Apollo’s Stephanie Drescher on running a global investment firm from her living room|reymashayekhi|September 19, 2020|Fortune
During times of crisis, they share advantageous genes with one another like children sharing candies.
What the Meadow Teaches Us - Issue 90: Something Green|Andreas Weber|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
In their 2019 paper Holm and Rotenberg found that some drawings provide a more advantageous starting position for inserting an edge than others.
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Teams may put more than one racer on the road at a time if they feel it will be advantageous.
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This means the favored candidate gets an advantageous spot on the ballot and a distinct electoral advantage in that county.
New Jersey Democrat’s Epic Freakout|Olivia Nuzzi|May 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These proportions are advantageous in sports in which strength rather than speed is at a premium.
What Makes a Great Olympian? Sometimes It’s Genetics|Jon Entine|August 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It could be rolled out whenever it would be most advantageous to the Romney team.
New York Congressman Peter King: Romney Never Acted on Endorsement Offer|Howard Kurtz|April 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Evolutionary psychology has puzzled over the question of what is it about crying that would have been advantageous for survival.
Why Women's Tears Turn Off Men|Casey Schwartz|January 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
This purchase was an advantageous one for the State, there having been already realized from it an amount equal to its cost.
Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.|Tappan Wentworth
Wolsey made an advantageous peace, and Charles promptly found himself obliged to come to terms with Francis.
Ten Tudor Statesmen|Arthur D. Innes
In 1658-59 he sustained Denmark against Sweden, and in 1662 concluded an advantageous peace with Portugal.