Beneficent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characterized by or performing acts of kindness or charity.
  • adj. Producing benefit; beneficial.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Doing or effecting good; performing acts of kindness and charity; marked by or resulting from good will.
  • Synonyms Beneficent, Beneficial, bountiful, bounteous, liberal, munificent, generous, kind. Beneficent always implies a kind and worthy purpose back of that to which the adjective applies; beneficial does not.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. doing or producing good
  • adj. generous in assistance to the poor
    • Equivalent
    benefic    charitable   
    Antonym
    maleficent   
    Cross Reference
    beneficial   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    benevolent    generous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Omniscient    coefficient    deficient    efficient    inefficient    insufficient    omniscient    proficient    self-sufficient    sufficient   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    benevolent    kindly    beneficial    merciful    heavenly    constructive    governmental    miraculous    very    benign   
     
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