Difference between Advantageous and Appropriate

What is the difference between Advantageous and Appropriate?

Advantageous as an adjective is being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. while Appropriate as an adjective is set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Advantageous

Part of speech: adjective

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

Appropriate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, "let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;—with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.

Example sentence: When I make film music, I'm a filmmaker first and foremost. It's about serving the needs of the film. You're telling a story; in a way, you stop becoming a composer and become a storyteller instead. You tell the story with the most appropriate themes. How you approach these things is a very personal matter, but your goal is to tell the story first.

We hope you now know whether to use Advantageous or Appropriate in your sentence.

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