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Beneficial definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BENEFI'CIAL, a. Advantageous; conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; contributing to a valuable end; followed by to; as, industry is beneficial to the body, as well as to the property.
1. Receiving or entitled to have or receive advantage, use or benefit; as the beneficial owner of an estate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: beneficial, good]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin beneficium favor, benefit Date: 15th century 1. conferring benefits ; conducive to personal or social well-being 2. receiving or entitling one to receive advantage, use, or benefit <a beneficial legacy> • beneficially adverb • beneficialness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 advantageous; having benefits. 2 Law relating to the use or benefit of property; having rights to this use or benefit. Derivatives: beneficially adv. Etymology: ME f. F bénéficial or LL beneficialis (as BENEFICE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Beneficial Ben`e*fi"cial, a. [Cf. F. b['e]n['e]ficial, LL. beneficialis.] 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to. The war which would have been most beneficial to us. --Swift. 2. (Law) 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives. ...vitamins which are beneficial to our health... Using computers has a beneficial effect on children's learning. ADJ: oft ADJ to n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, wholesome, favorable, good for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest.

Moby Thesaurus

advantageous, aidful, appropriate, auspicious, banausic, benevolent, benign, bon, bonny, bracing, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, constitutional, constructive, contributory, effective, efficacious, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, fitting, functional, furthersome, good, good for, goodly, grand, health-enhancing, health-preserving, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygeian, hygienic, invigorating, kind, laudable, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, pleasant, positive, practical, pragmatical, profitable, proper, refreshing, regal, remedial, royal, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, serviceable, skillful, sound, splendid, supportive, therapeutic, tonic, useful, utilitarian, valid, very good, virtuous, wholesome