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advantage - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ascendancy/ascendency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
| Synonyms: | advantage, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, edge, influence, jump*, mastery, power, predominance, prevalence, reign, rule, sovereignty, superiority, supremacy, sway, upper hand*, leg up, on top, preeminence, prepotence, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | decline, inferiority, subordination, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, appropriateness, fitness, service, usefulness, applicability |
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be of use; use |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, answer, benefit, fill, fulfill, meet, profit, satisfy, serve, suffice, work, be adequate |
| Main Entry: | behalf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal interest |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, cause, concern, countenance, defense, encouragement, favor, furtherance, good, help, part, place, profit, recommendation, representation, sake, service, side, support, welfare, stead |
| Main Entry: | benefit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | help, enhance |
| Synonyms: | advance, advantage, aid, ameliorate, assist, avail, better, build, favor, further, improve, pay, profit, promote, relieve, serve, succor, be good for, contribute to, do for one, do the trick, fill the bill, make a killing, make it, pay off*, work for |
| Antonyms: | handicap, harm, hinder, hurt, injure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, coverage, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, wage, counterclaim, damages, defrayal, indemnification, quittance, recoupment, remittal, remittance, take-home |
| Antonyms: | damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquisition, winnings |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accrual, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, advancement, advantage, attainment, benefit, boost, buildup, cut, dividend, earnings, emolument, gravy*, growth, headway*, hike*, improvement, income, increase, increment, lucre, payoff, proceeds, produce, profit, progress, receipts, return, rise, share, take, up*, velvet*, yield, upping |
| Antonyms: | expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | godsend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift, benefit |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benediction, blessing, boon, good, manna*, stroke of luck*, windfall |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, blow, setback, bad fortune, bombshell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, benevolence, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, honesty, honor, integrity, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, worth, beneficence, ethicality, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, obligingness, rightness, wholesomeness |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | leverage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | influence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, ascendancy, authority, bargaining chip, break, clout, drag, edge, grease*, power, pull, rank, weight, jump on, ropes, suction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | option |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alternative |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, choice, claim, dibs*, dilemma, discretion, election, franchise, free will*, grant, license, opportunity, pickup, preference, prerogative, privilege, right, selection, druthers, flipside, other side of coin, take it or leave it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit |
| Synonyms: | advantage, bonus, dividend, extra, fringe benefit, gratuity, gravy*, lagniappe, largess, perquisite, plus, tip |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perquisite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fringe benefit |
| Synonyms: | advantage, bonus, dividend, extra, gratuity, gravy*, lagniappe, largess, perk*, plus, reward, tip |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plurality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large part of a group |
| Synonyms: | advantage, bulk, lead, majority, mass, most, preponderance, profusion, variety, greater part, multiplicity, nearly all, numerousness |
| Antonyms: | minority |
| Main Entry: | plus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | asset; something added |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, bonus, extra, gain, perk, surplus, good point, overage, overstock, oversupply |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage, minus |
| Main Entry: | preponderance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great numbers; supremacy |
| Synonyms: | advantage, ascendancy, bigger half, bulk, command, dominance, domination, dominion, extensiveness, greater part, lion's share, mass, max, mostest, power, predominance, prevalence, superiority, sway, weight |
| Antonyms: | inferiority |
| Main Entry: | prerogative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, privilege |
| Synonyms: | advantage, appanage, authority, birthright, choice, claim, due, exemption, immunity, liberty, perquisite, sanction, title, droit |
| Antonyms: | duty, obligation |
| Main Entry: | privilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | right, due |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, appanage, appurtenance, authority, authorization, benefit, birthright, boon, chance, charter, claim, concession, event, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, grant, immunity, liberty, license, opportunity, perquisite, prerogative, right, sanction, entitlement |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | profit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gain |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, acquisition, advancement, advantage, augmentation, avail, benefit, bottom line*, earnings, gate*, goods*, gravy*, gross, harvest, income, interest, killing, lucre, net, output, percentage, proceeds, product, production, receipt, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, saving, skim*, split*, surplus, take*, turnout, use, value, velvet*, yield, aggrandizement, cleanup, emoluments, outturn, takings, winnings |
| Antonyms: | loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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