Definition of Advantageous

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Definition of Advantageous
	Advantageous Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Related Definitions: Advantage, Advantageous, An, As, Being, Beneficial, Conferring, Gainful, Is, Nation, Of, Position, Profitable, To, Trade, Useful

Advantageous Quotations

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
Mickey Rourke

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
David Hume

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
Richard Cobden

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Leland Stanford

Advantageous Translations

advantageous in Afrikaans is gunsteling-
advantageous in Danish is gunstig, nyttig
advantageous in Dutch is goedgezind, toegenegen, gunstig
advantageous in French is favorable, utile
advantageous in German is vorteilhaft
advantageous in Italian is vantaggioso
advantageous in Latin is utilis
advantageous in Portuguese is vantajoso
advantageous in Spanish is ventajoso, provechoso, favorable

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