ADVANTAGEOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advantageously mean? 

• ADVANTAGEOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb ADVANTAGEOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a manner affording benefit or advantage

  Familiarity information: ADVANTAGEOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVANTAGEOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner affording benefit or advantage

Synonyms:

advantageously; well

Context example:

The children were settled advantageously in Seattle

Antonym:

disadvantageously (in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage)

Pertainym:

advantageous (giving an advantage)

 Context examples 

They were certainly no friends to his acquaintance with me, which I cannot wonder at, since he might have chosen so much more advantageously in many respects.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I wrote a Story, with a purpose growing, not remotely, out of my experience, and sent it to Traddles, and he arranged for its publication very advantageously for me; and the tidings of my growing reputation began to reach me from travellers whom I encountered by chance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By convincing her that Fanny was very pretty, which she had been doubting about before, and that she would be advantageously married, it made her feel a sort of credit in calling her niece.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I was told that not only your sister was on the point of being most advantageously married, but that you, that Miss Elizabeth Bennet, would, in all likelihood, be soon afterwards united to my nephew, my own nephew, Mr. Darcy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)