Advantage

Noun

 * 1) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
 * 2) Superiority; mastery; &mdash; used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
 * 3) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
 * 4)  The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

Verb

 * 1)  To provide with an advantage, to give an edge.

Adjectives for Advantage
irretrievable; vile; inevitable; inescapable; obvious; patent; remote; trifling; marked; private; educational; pecuniary; fallacious; immediate; inestimable; enduring; appreciable; unfair; hidden; incidental; underestimated; permanent; contingent; manifold; accidental; worldly; material; human;  revolutionary ; worth while; practical; unique; physical;  substantial;  undue;  reciprocal; temporary; compensating; theoretical; reasonable;  invaluable;  surreptitious;  matchless ;  graceless;  definite;  decisive;  adventitious; base; hard-earned; initial; momentary; actual; cultural; exclusive; strategic; shameless; frail; selfish; perishable; unparalleled;  mutual;  overwhelming;  hygienic; unsurpassed; decided; tangible; numerical; signal; partisan; insurmountable; incalculable; ineluctable; irresistible.

Verbs for Advantage
buy with -; cite -; confer -; contemplate -; derive -; discern -; embody -; enjoy -; forbear -; forego -; gain -; hold -; hold forth on the -s of; jeopardize -; lack -; let pass -; offset -; pay back with -; press -; press home -; reap -; sacrifice -; seize upon -; set - against; shear off'-; stress -; surrender -; turn to -; use -; vouchsafe -; - accrues; - achieves; - is connected with; - feeds; - slips.

Synonyms for Advantage
foredeal, benefit, value, edge, vantage, profit, assistance, help, gain, interest, good, utility, expediency, superiority, success, victory, favor, favorise.

Antonyms for Advantage
disadvantage, obstacle, loss, hindrance, handicap, incumbrance, restriction.

Derived terms

 * advantage ground
 * advantageous
 * advantageously
 * advantageousness
 * have the advantage
 * take advantage
 * advantageable

Related terms

 * advance
 * vantage

Thesaurus
accommodation; account; advance; advancement; advantageously; advantageousness; advisability; allowance; amenity; answer; appliance; applicability; appropriateness; appurtenance; ascendancy; asset; avail; be handy; be of use; be right; befit; befitting; behalf; behoof; benediction; beneficialness; benefit; benison; bestead; better; betterment; blessing; boon; boost; break no bones; bulge; coign of vantage; conduce to; contribute to; convenience; deadwood; decency; desirability; do; do good; do no harm; do the trick; dominance; domination; draw; drop; edge; encourage; enhancement; expedience; expediency; expedite; facilitate; facility; favor; feasibility; fill the bill; fit; fitness; fittingness; flying start; foothold; footing; forward; fruitfulness; further; gain; give good returns; godsend; good; handicap; hasten; head start; heightening; help; hold; improvement; inside track; interest; jump; lead; leadership; lend wings to; make for; mastery; not come amiss; odds; opportuneness; overhand; pay; pay off; percentage; point; politicness; profit; profitability; promote; propriety; prosperity; prudence; purchase; push forward; put forward; quicken; relevance; rightness; running start; seasonableness; seemliness; serve; serve the purpose; service; serviceability; set forward; something extra; something in reserve; speed; start; suffice; suit the occasion; suitability; superiority; sway; timeliness; to advantage; toehold; traction; upper hand; use; usefulness; utility; value; vantage; vantage ground; vantage point; victory; welfare; well-being; whip hand; wisdom; work; work for; world of good; worth; worthwhileness; yield a profit

Etymology
From avantage:, avauntage:, from  avantage:, from avant:, from  abante:. For sense development, compare.

Noun

 * Albanian: përfitim
 * Arabic: افضلية
 * Basque: abantaila
 * Bulgarian: предимство,
 * Catalan: avantatge
 * Chinese: 有利的 (yǒulì de); 佔有優勢的, 占有优势的 (zhànyǒu yōushì de)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: vantaggio
 * Japanese: 得 (toku)
 * Nahuatl: teinellili
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: mantais, manteision


 * Albanian: epërsi
 * Bulgarian: предимство
 * Catalan: avantatge
 * Chinese: 佔有優勢的, 占有优势的 (zhànyǒu yōushì de)
 * Danish: fortrin
 * Dutch: ,


 * Finnish: yliote
 * French:
 * German: Vorteil
 * Hungarian: fölény
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:


 * Albanian: epërsi
 * Catalan: benefici
 * Chinese: 佔有優勢的, 占有优势的 (zhànyǒu yōushì de)
 * Danish: nytte
 * Dutch: voordeel (used with the definite article: het voordeel)


 * French:
 * German: Vorzug
 * Japanese: 得 (toku)
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Albanian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: voordeel (used without article)


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * Bulgarian: подпомагам, благоприятствам
 * Dutch: begunstigen, bevoordelen


 * French: avantager, favoriser