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Plus

More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

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Advantageous 84% connected

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

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Advantageous 84% connected

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

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Favorable 84% connected

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Favorable 84% connected

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Favourable 84% connected

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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Favourable 84% connected

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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Positive 84% connected

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

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Positive 84% connected

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

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Advantage 76% connected

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantag…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Forte 76% connected

The strong point; that in which one excels.

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Resource 76% connected

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

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Speciality 76% connected

A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.

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Specialty 76% connected

Particularity.

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Strength 76% connected

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force;…

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Vantage 76% connected

superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Asset 92% connected

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Positive 92% connected

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Minus 94% connected

Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

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Minus 94% connected

Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

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