advantageous meaning

• Adjective: advantageous  `advun'teyjus
  1. Giving an advantage
     "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often" 
  2. Appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

  See also: advantage, advantageously, advantageousness, beneficial, discriminatory, expedient, good, opportune, plus, positive, preferential, profitable

  Antonym: disadvantageous

Examples

1. what is disadvantageous to john may be advantageous to henry.
2. creosote thus possesses a variety of advantageous properties.
3. it therefore becomes an advantageous method that can be easily implemented.
4. i declare that justice is nothing else than that which is advantageous to the stronger.
5. he could only try to channel it in a direction advantageous to the united states.