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

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

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

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

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

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

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The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

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The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

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Discriminative.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.