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Antonyms for advantage
ædˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn-ad·van·tage

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Wiktionary2.5 / 2 votes

  1. advantagenoun

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    foredeal, edge, benefit, vantage, value, favor, favorise

  2. advantageverb

    To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    benefit, favorise, favor, foredeal, vantage, value, edge

  3. advantagenoun

    To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

    The enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    benefit, favorise, favor, value, foredeal, edge, vantage

  4. advantagenoun

    Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    vantage, value, edge, benefit, foredeal

  5. advantagenoun

    The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

    Synonyms:
    vantage, edge, value, foredeal, benefit

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage

English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. advantage

    The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

    Antonyms:
    damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

    Synonyms:
    avail, benefit, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

    Preposition:
    The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. advantage, vantagenoun

    the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

    "the experience gave him the advantage over me"

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour

    Synonyms:
    vantage, reward

  2. advantagenoun

    (tennis) first point scored after deuce

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour

    Synonyms:
    vantage, reward

  3. advantage, rewardverb

    benefit resulting from some event or action

    "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage, disfavour, disfavor

    Synonyms:
    wages, payoff, vantage, reinforcement, reward

  4. advantageverb

    give an advantage to

    "This system advantages the rich"

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage, disfavour, disfavor

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. advantagenoun

    Antonyms:
    disadvantage

    Synonyms:
    vantage-ground, superiority, mastery, ascendency, benefit, avail, profit

How to use advantage in a sentence?

  1. Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul-Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no1:

    1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

  2. Sam Bateman:

    China has homefield advantage.

  3. Hassan Rouhani:

    I believe that they want to wage a psychological war and create skepticism in the Iranian people to be able to use it in the coming Congress elections, so Trump's remarks are aimed at taking advantage of them in Congress elections.

  4. Samuel Goldwyn:

    I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  5. Charles Cooley:

    To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

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