Beneficial
[benɪ'fɪʃ(ə)l] or [,bɛnɪ'fɪʃl]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
Checked by Kathy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
(a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
(a.) King.
Editor: Nat
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, good, for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest.
Edited by Abraham
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious
ANT:Prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental
Editor: Miles
Definition
adj. useful; advantageous: (law) enjoying the usufruct of property.—adj. Benef′ic of good influence astrologically: beneficent kindly.—adv. Benefic′ially.—ns. Benefic′ialness; Benefic′iary a legal term to denote a person who enjoys or has the prospect of enjoying any interest or estate held in trust by others.
Editor: Monica
Examples
- Though their beneficial effects, however, have been in this respect accidental, they have not upon that account been less real. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- One thing is certain, that it would be beneficial to your art. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Every day while I stayed with them, some little plan was proposed which resulted in beneficial enjoyment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It should be very beneficial to a man in your practice at the bar, to be ashamed of anything, returned Sydney; you ought to be much obliged to me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Davy recognized and explained the beneficial fertilizing effects of ammonia, and analysed and explained numerous fertilizers, including guano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And it would, I think, be beneficial to you: it would be an advantageous way of managing the land which I mean to be yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His chief work was the making known widely of the beneficial effects of ammonia and ammoniacal compounds on vegetation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We had to consider, first, whether our proposals were possible, and secondly whether they were the most beneficial? Plato. The Republic.
- Then clearly the next thing will be to make matrimony sacred in the highest degree, and what is most beneficial will be deemed sacred? Plato. The Republic.
- That is a poor reason for giving up a connection which I think I may say will be mutually beneficial. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We do not always realize that light is beneficial, because sometimes it fades our clothing and our carpets, and burns our skin and makes it sore. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And how can marriages be made most beneficial? Plato. The Republic.
- And they are rightly called so, because we are framed by nature to desire both what is beneficial and what is necessary, and cannot help it. Plato. The Republic.
- In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It is the combination of men, in a system of conduct, which renders any act of justice beneficial to society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such rents are always more hurtful to the tenant than beneficial to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The former are always and necessarily beneficial; the latter always and necessarily hurtful. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Gradations of structure, with each stage beneficial to a changing species, will be favoured only under certain peculiar conditions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Medical authorities agree in considering the daily consumption of 1 gramme as being not only perfectly inoffensive, but decidedly beneficial to health. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Then we have made an enactment not only possible but in the highest degree beneficial to the State? Plato. The Republic.
- Within the sphere of school instruction, empiricism found its directly beneficial office in protesting against mere book learning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is at present the opinion of the most intelligent men in France, that his operations of this kind have not been beneficial to his country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The new elections were finished; parliament met, and Raymond was occupied in a thousand beneficial schemes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Whenever the flag flaps, he would learn, it was a prayer also, very beneficial to the gentleman who paid for the flag and to the land generally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A farmer's is a very healthy happy life; and the least hurtful, or rather the most beneficial profession of any. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I felt the beneficial result of such excitement, in a renewal of those pleasing flights of fancy to which I had long been a stranger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Monica