[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

advantageous \ad`vanta"geous\, a. f. avantageux, fr.
   avantage.
   being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful;
   profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position;
   trade is advantageous to a nation.
   1913 webster

         advabtageous comparison with any other country.
                                                  --prescott.
   1913 webster

         you see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how
         swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one
         goes.                                    --chesterfield.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

advantageous
     adj 1: giving an advantage; "a contract advantageous to our
            country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often"
            ant: disadvantageous
     2: appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack
        of concern for fairness syn: appropriate
see also:
disadvantageous appropriate 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

107 moby thesaurus words for "advantageous":
   acceptable, advisable, agreeable, appropriate, auspicious,
   banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny,
   brave, braw, breadwinning, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable,
   commodious, conducive, congruous, contributory, convenient, decent,
   desirable, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient,
   fair, famous, fat, favorable, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fine,
   fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, functional, gainful, good,
   good for, goodly, grand, happy, healthy, helpful, in the black,
   instrumental, kind, laudable, likely, lucrative, meet, moneymaking,
   nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use,
   opportune, paying, pleasant, pleasing, politic, practical,
   pragmatical, productive, profitable, proper, propitious,
   recommendable, regal, remedial, remunerative, right, royal,
   salutary, satisfactory, satisfying, seasonable, seemly,
   serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound, splendid, suitable, timely,
   to be desired, toward, useful, utilitarian, valid, valuable,
   very good, virtuous, well-paying, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

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