Word Meanings - ADVANTAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages

Additional info about word: ADVANTAGE

1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay. 2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11. 3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. 4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of , to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; to overreach, to outwit. Syn. -- Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a "vantage ground" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADVANTAGE)

• Account
• Narration
• report
• rehearsal
• story
• statement
• narrative
• recital
• relation
• description
• motive
• value
• importance
• advantage
• ground
• reason
• profit
• Ameliorate
• Improve
• raise
• better
• promote
• advance
• amend
• rectify
• meliorate
• Ascendancy
• Superiority
• mastery
• control
• influence
• supremacy
• sway
• domination
• authority
• Avail Suffice
• hold
• stand
• endure
• answer
• tell
• help
• benefit
• service
• use
• utility
• Avail
• Profit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ADVANTAGE)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Fail
• fall
• disappoint
• betray
• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Silence
• hush
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to ADVANTAGE)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• NARRATION
  That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.