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beneficial

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also:bénéficial

English

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Etymology

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FromLate Latinbeneficiālis(“beneficial”), fromLatinbeneficium(“benefit, favor, kindness”).

Pronunciation

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enPR:bĕnəfĭsh'əl,IPA^(key): /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl/
Audio(Southern England): (file)
Rhymes:-ɪʃəl

Adjective

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beneficial (comparativemorebeneficial,superlativemostbeneficial)

Helpful orgood tosomething orsomeone.
Recycling and reusing garbage can bebeneficial to the environment.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, pages72–3:
  Mostly, the microbiome isbeneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
Relating to abenefice.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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(antonym(s) of“doing harm to someone”):detrimental,maleficial,nocuous,damaging,harmful
(antonym(s) of“doing neither good nor harm”):innocuous,undamaging,harmless

Derived terms

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Translations

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helpful or good to something or someone

Arabic:مُفِيد(mufīd)
Armenian:շահեկան (hy)(šahekan),օգտակար (hy)(ōgtakar)
Asturian:beneficiosu,benéficu
Azerbaijani:faydalı (az),xeyirli
Belarusian:кары́сны(karýsny),выго́дны(vyhódny),дабратво́рны(dabratvórny)
Bulgarian:благотво́рен (bg)(blagotvóren),поле́зен (bg)(polézen)
Catalan:beneficiós
Chinese:
Mandarin:有益的 (zh)(yǒuyì de),有利的 (zh)(yǒulì de)
Czech:prospěšný (cs) m
Danish:gavnlig (da)
Dutch:gunstig (nl)
Esperanto:please add this translation if you can
Finnish:hyödyllinen (fi),suotuisa (fi),tervetullut (fi),hyvästä (fi)(adverb)
French:bienfaisante (fr),bénéfique (fr)
Galician:beneficioso (gl),benéfico
Georgian:please add this translation if you can
German:nützlich (de),vorteilhaft (de)
Greek:ωφέλιμος (el)(ofélimos),επωφελής (el)(epofelís)
Ancient:ὠφέλιμος(ōphélimos)
Hebrew:מועיל (he) m(moíl),מיטיב m(metív)
Italian:benefico (it)
Japanese:有益な (ja)(ゆうえきな, yūeki na)
Korean:유익하다 (ko)(yuikhada),이롭다 (ko)(iropda)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish:sûdbexş (ku)
Macedonian:добротворен(dobrotvoren)
Maori:whaihua,whaioranga
Norwegian:
Bokmål:fordelaktig
Nynorsk:fordelaktig
Persian:مفید(mofid),سودمند (fa)(sôdmand)
Plautdietsch:nutzboa
Polish:korzystny (pl)
Portuguese:benéfico (pt)
Russian:благотво́рный (ru)(blagotvórnyj),поле́зный (ru)(poléznyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:благотворан,користан
Roman:blagotvoran (sh),koristan (sh)
Slovak:prospešný
Slovene:koristen (sl),dobrodejen
Spanish:beneficioso (es)
Swedish:fördelaktig (sv),gynnsam (sv)
Turkish:please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian:кори́сний (uk)(korýsnyj),ви́гідний(výhidnyj),благотво́рний (uk)(blahotvórnyj)

relating to a benefice

French:bénéficial (fr)

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Translations to be checked

Portuguese:favorável (pt),generoso (pt)

Noun

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beneficial (pluralbeneficials)

Something that provides abenefit.
- 1997,Insect Control Guide, volume 9, Meister Publishing, page29:
  Daytime temperatures may be too hot for just-releasedbeneficials, and birds and other predators are out in full force during the day.