beneficial
conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
Law.
helpful in the meeting of needs: a beneficial association.
involving the personal enjoyment of proceeds: a beneficial owner.
Origin of beneficial
1Other words for beneficial
Opposites for beneficial
Other words from beneficial
- ben·e·fi·cial·ly, adverb
- ben·e·fi·cial·ness, noun
- non·ben·e·fi·cial, adjective
- non·ben·e·fi·cial·ly, adverb
- non·ben·e·fi·cial·ness, noun
- qua·si-ben·e·fi·cial, adjective
- qua·si-ben·e·fi·cial·ly, adverb
- un·ben·e·fi·cial, adjective
- un·ben·e·fi·cial·ly, adverb
- un·ben·e·fi·cial·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with beneficial
- beneficent, beneficial , benevolent
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How to use beneficial in a sentence
Remove the top dressing from the outside border, to allow the increasing power of the sun to act beneficially upon it.
In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year | William KeaneIt is quite possible that the primordial excretion may have been beneficially increased to serve the plant.
More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II | Charles DarwinThis bill seems to contemplate no end which cannot be otherwise more certainly and beneficially attained.
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Six | Abraham LincolnIt would be difficult for the wisest to exercise powers like these beneficially; and it is to be feared that abuses have crept in.
Then privilege confounds confusion; the estates of favoured churches and nobles are beneficially hidated.
Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William Maitland
British Dictionary definitions for beneficial
/ (ˌbɛnɪˈfɪʃəl) /
(sometimes foll by to) causing a good result; advantageous
law entitling a person to receive the profits or proceeds of property: a beneficial interest in land
Origin of beneficial
1Derived forms of beneficial
- beneficially, adverb
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