| 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: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
Synonyms: |
advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
Antonyms: |
blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| 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: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, control |
Synonyms: |
ascendancy, authorization, beef, charge, clout*, command, credit, domination, dominion, edge, esteem, force, goods*, government, guts*, influence, juice*, jump, jurisdiction, leg up, license, mastery, might, might and main, permission, permit, pizzazz*, pow, powerhouse, prerogative, prestige, punch, right, ropes, rule, say, say-so, steam, strength, strong arm, stuff*, supremacy, sway, upper hand, warrant, weight, what it takes, whip hand, word, zap |
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | encouragement |
Synonyms: |
aid, assistance, backup, buildup, goose, hand*, handout, help, helping hand, improvement, leg up, leg*, lift, praise, promotion, shot in the arm, support |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, hindrance |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, aid |
Synonyms: |
assist, assistance, boost, comfort, encouragement, hand, leg up, pick-me-up, reassurance, relief, secours, shot in the arm, succor, support |
Antonyms: |
harm, ill will |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase in salary or position |
Synonyms: |
accession, accretion, addition, advance, augmentation, boost, bump, hike, hold-up, increment, jump, jump-up, leg*, leg-up, move-up, promotion, raising, rise, step-up |
Antonyms: |
decrease, drop, reduction |
| Main Entry: | upper hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | major advantage |
Synonyms: |
advantage, authority, benefit, break, control, dominance, driver's seat, edge, favor, gain, help, improvement, lead, leg up, leverage, rule, superiority, supremacy, trump hand, whip hand |
| Main Entry: | ascendancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
Synonyms: |
advantage, ascendency, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, edge, influence, jump, leg up, mastery power, pre-eminence, predominance, prepotence, prevalence, reign, rule, sovereignty, superiority, supremacy, sway, upper hand, whip hand |
Antonyms: |
inferiority, subordination, weakness |
| Main Entry: | trump card |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | key advantage |
Synonyms: |
ace in the hole, ace up one's sleeve, card up one's sleeve, key resource, leg up, secret weapon, trump, upper hand, whip hand |