| 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, expediency, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leg-up, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, pre-eminence, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand, utility, wealth |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | allowance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discount; concession |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, admission, advantage, cut, deduction, rebate, reduction, sanction, sufferance, toleration |
| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant thing |
Synonyms: |
advantage, betterment, comfort, convenience, enhancement, enrichment, excellence, extravagance, facility, frill, improvement, luxury, merit, quality, service, superfluity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
abomination, inconvenience |
| Main Entry: | ascendancy/ascendency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
Synonyms: |
advantage, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, edge, influence, jump*, leg up, mastery, on top, power, predominance, preeminence, prepotence, prevalence, reign, rule, sovereignty, superiority, supremacy, sway, upper hand, whip hand |
Antonyms: |
decline, inferiority, powerlessness, subordination |
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
Synonyms: |
account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, fitness, service, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be of use; use |
Synonyms: |
account, advantage, answer, be adequate, benefit, fill, fulfill, meet, profit, satisfy, serve, suffice, work |
| 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, stead, support, welfare |
| Main Entry: | benefit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | help, enhance |
Synonyms: |
advance, advantage, aid, ameliorate, assist, avail, be good for, better, build, contribute to, do for one, do the trick, favor, fill the bill, further, improve, make a killing, make it, pay, pay off, profit, promote, relieve, serve, succor, work for |
Antonyms: |
handicap, harm, hinder, hurt, injure |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky happening |
Synonyms: |
accident, advantage, chance, favorable circumstances, fortune, good luck, luck, occasion, opening, opportunity, shot, show, stroke of luck, time |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
Antonyms: |
bad luck, misfortune |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, luck |
Synonyms: |
accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap, haphazard, happening, hazard, heads or tails, hit*, in the cards, kismet, lot, lottery, luck out, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck, throw of the dice, toss-up, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
Antonyms: |
aim, design, plan, scheme |