advantage

advantage is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
2. noun. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
3. noun. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
4. noun. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
5. transitive verb. To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
6. noun. benefit resulting from some event or action

   "it turned out to my advantage"

   "reaping the rewards of generosity"

   Synonyms: reward

7. noun. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

   "the experience gave him the advantage over me"

   Synonyms: vantage

8. noun. (tennis) first point scored after deuce
9. verb. give an advantage to

   "This system advantages the rich"

Synonyms

reward, vantage

Common word forms

advantaged, advantages, advantaging, advantageous

Words from these letters

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