-v. 3. serve, help, aid, benefit, avail, be of advantage to; further, promote, advance; profit, favor, prove beneficial to, yield gain to; get the best of, Inf.score on oroff.
advantageous, adj.beneficial, good, favorable, helpful, of service, serviceable; convenient, expedient, fortunate, opportune, propitious, auspicious, salutary; valuable, profitable, gainful, lucrative, remunerative; to one's interest orbest interest, to one's good, all to the good, all for the best,
advent, n.1. arrival, appearance, forthcoming; approach, access, accession, coming, coming near; approach of time, time drawing near.
2. (usu. cap.)
coming of Christ, Incarnation; Second Advent, Second Coming, Parousia, Judgment Day.
adventitious, adj.extrinsic, external, extraneous, supervenient, foreign, alien; incidental, accidental, nonessential; chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, Inf. fluky; casual, random, haphazard,
adventure, n.1. risk, hazard, danger, peril, jeopardy; chance, fortune, fortuity.
2. enterprise, venture; speculation, gamble, plunge, stake, shot, Inf.flier; trial, essay, experiment.
3. exploit, feat, deed, tour de force; affair, episode. -v. 4. risk, jeopardize, hazard, venture; imperil, threaten, endanger.
5. dare, chance, wager, bet; stake, Brit,
punt, sink, Inf.plunge; take a chance, run the risk, take a long shot, try one's fortune, play for, try one's luck,
adventurer, n.1. voyager, traveler, explorer, jour-neyer, globetrotter, landloper; wanderer, rover, roamer, wayfarer, itinerant, peripatetic; gadabout, vagabond, vagrant.
2. soldier of fortune, mercenary, professional soldier, legionary, legionnaire; knight-errant, swashbuckler, daredevil, madcap.
3. speculator, gambler, bull, wagerer, gamester, Inf. plunger.
4. trickster, sharper, swindler, rook, bamboozler; desperado, Inf.crook, thief, fleecer, Inf.hawk, SI. stockateer, Often Contemptuous,
stockjobber; impostor, pretender, deceiver; charlatan, quack, mountebank, con man; knave, rogue, scoundrel, cheat.
adventurous, adj.1. daring, audacious, bold; enterprising, adventuresome, venturesome; doughty, courageous, gallant, chivalrous; valorous, brave, valiant, heroic; undaunted, dauntless, intrepid, fearless; game, spirited, plucky, Inf.spunky, of sporting blood.
2. rash, foolhardy, reckless, temerarious, daredevil; brash, impetuous, hasty, incautious, headlong; imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious.
3. risky, dangerous, perilous, hazardous, jeopard-ous; uncertain, chancy, precarious, Archaic, parlous.
adversary, n.1. opponent, antagonist, enemy, foe, Literary,
foeman, assailant, attacker; contestant, competitor, rival; opposer, disputant, debater.
2. the Adversary the devil, Satan, the archenemy,
adverse, adj.1. antagonistic, hostile, belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious; averse, unfriendly, uncongenial; antipathetic, antipathetical, repugnant, oppugnant, irreconcilable; injurious, inimical, pernicious, noxious, harmful, hurtful, afflictive, detrimental.
2. inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unlucky, unprovidential, untoward, sad; ominous, portentous, foreboding, bodeful; fatal, dire, black, star-crossed; disastrous, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous, cataclysmic, cataclysmal.
3. opposed, opposing, oppositive, oppositional; opponent, adversary, adversative, conflicting, against, at loggerheads; counter, counteractive, counteracting, contrary, contradictory, contrapositive, (of winds, etc.)
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