BENEFICIAL

beneficial, good

(adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being; “an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries”; “the beneficial effects of a temperate climate”; “the experience was good for her”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

beneficial (comparative more beneficial, superlative most beneficial)

Helpful or good to something or someone.

Relating to a benefice.

Synonyms

• (helpful or good): advantageous, behooveful (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)

Noun

beneficial (plural beneficials)

Something that is beneficial.

Source: Wiktionary

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Ben`e*fi"cial, a. Etym: [Cf. F. bénéficial, LL. beneficialis.]

1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which would have been most beneficial to us. Swift.

2. (Law)

Definition: Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent.

3. King. [Obs.] "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson.

Syn.

– See Advantage.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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