Synonyms for advantageous
ˌæd vənˈteɪ dʒəsad·van·ta·geous

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1. advantageous

   Synonyms:
   beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

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1. advantageousadjective

   giving an advantage

   "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often"

   Antonyms:
   negative, minus, disadvantageous, inexpedient

2. advantageousadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   negative, inexpedient, disadvantageous, minus

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1. behoovesadjective

   advantageous refers to the role of something or someone being in service to something or someone else, it behooves the person or situation

   it is advantageous for job seekers to network for opportunities in their chosen profession.

   Submitted by dmorin13 on May 5, 2022  

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1. advantageousadjective

   Synonyms:
   beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, for one's advantage, for one's interest, for one's good

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1. List of paraphrases for "advantageous":

   beneficial, favourable, favorable, profitable, useful, win-win

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1. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov:

   I will defend the position for the construction of Nord Stream II and (a) gas hub in Bulgaria - it is advantageous for the country and nobody can reproach me for that.

2. Abraham Lincoln:

   I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

3. Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez:

   There is deep, deep economic pain for many young adults across the country, and there is nothing I can think of that the President Joe Biden administration could do that is a real campaign promise fulfilment, is obviously politically advantageous and is advantageous to the lives of millions of people.

4. Sigmund Freud:

   When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

5. Thomas Paine:

   To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.