beneficial

Speech parts

1. beneficial - Noun

2. beneficial - Adjective

3. beneficial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.

Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.

King.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

good useful helpful advantageous beneficent important better successful lucky bon edifying therapeutical positive effective advantage

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Antonyms

harmful damaging detrimental feller pyrrhic correctional

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Phrases with the word

non beneficial be beneficial beneficial effect beneficial position beneficial process beneficial development

Examples

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. Ron Paul

To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind. Frances Burney

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. Friedrich Hayek

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. Peter Kropotkin

Bread and cheese, neither beneficial nor bad. Sicilian Proverb

A light supper is beneficial. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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