Beneficent, a.
- 1. Bountiful, benevolent, kind, liberal, generous, bounteous, princely, munificent.
- 2. Benign, favorable, beneficial, benignant, salutary.
Beneficial, a. Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, wholesome, favorable, good for one’s advantage, for one’s good, for one’s interest.
Benefit, n.
- 1. Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.
- 2. Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.
Benefit, v. a.
- 1. Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on, do a good
turn or kind office to.
- 2. Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.
Benevolence, n.
- 1. Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, humaneness, philanthropy, tenderness, charitableness,
good-will, altruism, unselfishness, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.
- 2. Charity, benefaction, beneficence, alms-giving, charitable effort(s).
Benevolent, a. Kind, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, obliging, humane, tender, charitable, generous, liberal, philanthropic, altruistic, unselfish, disposed to do good, full of good-will.
Benighted, a.
- 1. Overtaken by night, belated, out in the dark.
- 2. Involved in darkness, profoundly ignorant, sunk in ignorance, unenlightened.
Benign, a.
- 1. Kind, kindly, benevolent, gracious, complaisant, humane, obliging, benignant, good, amiable, gentle,
friendly, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, of a gentle disposition.
- 2. Beneficent, most salutary, most propitious, most favorable, benignant, most wholesome, most beneficial.