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Definition of advantageous :
Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.
Synonyms:
golden, plus, help, healing, essential, restorative, kindly, therapeutic, well-balanced, fat, rewarding, wholesome, preferential, toward, benefic, healthy, moneymaking, positive, beneficent, salutary, get, lucrative, remunerative, benignant, friendly, sensible, discriminatory
beneficial (part of speech: adjective)
good, successful, beneficial, helpful, improving, favorable, worthwhile, gainful, prosperous, profitable, progressive, better
fortunate (part of speech: adjective)
favored, fortuitous, blessed, auspicious, fortunate, propitious, lucky
utilizable (part of speech: adjective)
functional, versatile, practical, instrumental, usable, available, all-purpose, multipurpose, effectual, applicable, practicable, appropriate, employable, applied, serviceable, utilitarian, utilizable, at hand, reusable, handy, fitting
expedient (part of speech: adjective)
apt, timely, desirable, fit, effective, efficient, useful, opportune, expedient, suitable, accommodating, commodious, convenient
Usage examples:
- But it would have been all the same to Robert Bruce, for he was ready to believe that he believed anything advantageous. - "Alec Forbes of Howglen", George MacDonald.
- I have decided to remain here for an indefinite time, under the conviction that I shall exert a more advantageous and more extensive influence on the progress of science in this country than in Europe. - "Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence", Louis Agassiz.
- States do not usually bind themselves in the way just described, unless they have some advantageous agreement with the Power which has the first claim on their alliance. - "The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)", John Holland Rose.