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Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…

Profitably; with advantage.

Profitableness.

advantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott. -- Dis*ad`van*ta"geou…

Advantageous. [Obs.]

or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.

come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

s self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds w…

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

Supplying need; profitable; advantageous. [Obs.] Udall.

Advantageous; useful; profitable. [Archaic] -- Be*hoove"ful*ly, adv. -- Be*hoove"ful*ness, n. [Archaic]

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation.

weakness or strength of a military position, of a certain arrangement of troops, the most advantageous position for a battlefield, etc.

Injurious; disadvantageous. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [R.]

Disadvantageous. [Obs.] "Disadvantageous ground." Drayton.

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.