Synonyms of catbird seats

catbird seats

noun

plural of catbird seat

1

as in advantages

the more favorable condition or position in a competition

your fluency in French should put you in the catbird seat for getting the Paris posting

Synonyms & Similar Words

• advantages
• edges
• odds
• opportunities
• high grounds
• upper hands
• coigns of vantage
• jumps
• whip hands
• inside tracks
• vantages
• drops
• privileges
• pulls
• starts
• bulges
• steads
• betters
• superiorities
• dominances
• transcendences
• legs up
• supremacies
• head starts
• margins
• leads
• allowances
• transcendencies
• ascendancies
• benefits
• predominances
• seniorities
• prerogatives
• precedences
• preferences
• footholds
• commands
• windfalls
• felicities
• mannas
• masteries
• blessings
• breaks
• godsends
• boons

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liabilities
• penalties
• disadvantages
• strikes
• drawbacks
• handicaps
• minuses
• disabilities
• imbalances
• detriments
• disparities
• shortcomings
• obstacles
• bars
• impairments
• checks
• stops
• impediments
• obstructions
• failings
• lets
• trammels
• interferences
• shackles
• strangleholds
• catches
• hindrances
• rubs
• clogs
• hurdles
• hitches
• embarrassments
• setbacks
• crimps
• manacles
• inequalities
• lurches

2

as in spotlights

the center of public attention

in the wake of the natural disaster, this obscure bureaucrat was suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into the catbird seat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spotlights
• attentions
• limelights
• top billings
• center stages
• front burners
• heeds
• notices

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• back burners