| Main Entry: | vantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break*, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, drop*, edge, eminence, expediency, favor, gain, good, gratification, handicap, head start, 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, start, 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 |
| Main Entry: | vantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point of view |
Synonyms: |
Anschauung, angle, attitude, eye*, frame of reference, opinion, optique, orientation, outlook, perspective, position, private opinion, slant*, standpoint, two cents worth, viewpoint, way of thinking |
| Main Entry: | edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
allowance, ascendancy, bulge, dominance, draw, handicap, head start, lead, odds, start, superiority, upper hand, vantage |
Antonyms: |
block, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | handicap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
bulge, edge*, favor, head start, odds, penalty, points, start, upper hand, vantage |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, drawback, impairment, limitation, restriction, shortcoming |
| Main Entry: | odds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
allowance, benefit, bulge, difference, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, draw, edge, handicap, head start, lead, overlay, start, superiority, vantage |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
allowance, backing, break, bulge, chance, draw, edge, handicap, head start, helping hand, introduction, lead, odds, opening, opportunity, sponsorship, vantage |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | superiority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, predominance |
Synonyms: |
ahead, ascendancy, authority, better, bulge, dominance, edge, eminence, excellence, influence, lead, meliority, nobility, perfection, position, power, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prestige, prevalence, pull, rank, spark, supremacy, top, transcendence, upper hand, vantage, victory, whip hand |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inferiority, subservience |
| Main Entry: | power base |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | home base |
Synonyms: |
backing, constituency, home turf, niche, stamping ground, support, territory, turf, vantage |
| Main Entry: | vantage point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point from which one sees |
Synonyms: |
angle, perspective, point of vantage, point of view, position, slant, vantage, vantage ground, viewpoint, where one stands |
| Concept: | Superiority. [Supremacy] |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackerjack., supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; climax; culmination (summit); transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus (remainder); (redundance).
-verbs
be superior; exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; overtop, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake., become larger, render larger (increase) [more], (expand) [more].
-adjectives
superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding; great; distinguished, ultra; vaulting; more than a match for., supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate (important) [more], (excellent) [more]; unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating (topmost); transcendent, transcendental; plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope, increased (added to); enlarged (expanded).
-adverbs
beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par; upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its height., [in a superior or supreme degree] eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more.
-phrases
"I shall not look upon his like again" [Hamlet]; deos fortioribus addesse [Tacitus]. [more]
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Antonyms: |
inferiority |
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