beneficial

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Pronunciation

• enPR: bĕnəfĭsh'əl, IPA: /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl/

Adjective

beneficial

1. Helpful or good to something or someone.

   Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment.

2. Relating to a benefice.

Synonyms

• (helpful or good) advantageous, behooveful qual archaic, helpful, useful
• (relating to a benefice) usufructuary, usufructuous

Antonyms

• maleficial, nocuous, damaging, harmful (doing harm to someone)
• innocuous, undamaging, harmless (doing no harm; doing neither harm nor good)

Translations

• French: bienfaisante, bénéfique
• German: nützlich, vorteilhaft
• Italian: benefico
• Portuguese: benéfico
• Russian: благотво́рный
• Spanish: beneficioso

Translations

• French: bénéficial

Noun

beneficial (plural beneficials)

1. Something that is beneficial.

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