Word Meanings - BENEFICENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENEFICENT)
- Charitable
- Kind
- benign
- benevolent
- beneficent
- liberal
- considerate
- forgiving
- compassionate
- placable
- inexacting
- inextreme
- Gracious
- Affable
- courteous
- benignant
- kind
- civil
- condescending
- merciful
- friendly
- tender
- gentle
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BENEFICENT)
Related words: (words related to BENEFICENT)
- COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - INEXACT
Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate. - BENEFICENT
, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent. - LIBERALIZE
To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke. - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - CHARITABLENESS
The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - BENEVOLENT
Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent. - BENEFICENTLY
In a beneficent manner; with beneficence. - FORGIVER
One who forgives. Johnson. - MERCIFUL
1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give - WITHDRAWAL
The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding. - APPROPRIATE
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words - LIBERALISTIC
Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions. - WITHDRAW
1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To - WITHDRAWER
One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts. - UNPLACABLE
Implacable. - ILLIBERALISM
Illiberality. - INCIVIL
Uncivil; rude. Shak. - DISGRACIOUS
Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak. - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - ILLIBERALNESS
The state of being illiberal; illiberality. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.