Beneficial

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous.
  • adj. Law Receiving or having the right to receive proceeds or other advantages.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Helpful or good to something or someone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
  • adj. Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit.
  • adj. King.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Contributing to a valuable end; conferring benefit; advantageous; profitable; useful; helpful.
  • Having or conferring the right to the use or benefit, as of property; pertaining or entitled to the usufruet: as, a beneficial owner (which see, below); a beneficial interest in an estate.
  • Pertaining to or having a benefice; beneficed.
  • Kind; generous: as, a “beneficial foe,”
  • n. A benefice; a church living.
  • n. In zoology, an animal which benefits man by destroying or checking the increase of animals injurious to him.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. promoting or enhancing well-being
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    injurious    harmful    ruinous    unfavourable    detrimental   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    advantage    useful    profitable    helpful    advantageous    serviceable    King    good    beneficent    behooveful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    advantageous    profitable    desirable    useful    helpful    harmful    satisfactory    favorable    agreeable    meaningful