Word Meanings - BENEFICIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which

Additional info about word: BENEFICIAL

Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which would have been most beneficial to us. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENEFICIAL)

• Advisable
• Politic
• judicious
• expedient
• desirable
• wise
• prudent
• beneficial
• profitable
• Desirable
• Expedient
• advisable
• valuable
• acceptable
• proper
• good
• enviable
• delightful
• Gainful
• Profitable
• advantageous
• winning
• useful
• productive
• remunerative
• lucrative
• Propitious
• Timely
• favorable
• auspicious
• friendly
• welldisposed
• gracious
• benign
• fortunate

Related words: (words related to BENEFICIAL)

• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• WINNOW
  comp.), winpi-skauro a fan, L. ventilare to fan, to winnow; cf. L. wannus a fan for winnowing, G. wanne, OHG. wanna. . See Wind moving 1. To separate, and drive off, the chaff from by means of wind; to fan; as, to winnow grain. Ho winnoweth barley
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• REMUNERATIVE
  Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• POLITICLY
  In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• WINNINGNESS
  The quality or state of being winning. "Winningness in style." J. Morley.
• POLITICALLY
  1. In a political manner. 2. Politicly; artfully. Knolles.
• EXPEDIENTIAL
  . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
• FORTUNATE
  1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment. 2. Receiving same unforeseen
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• WINNER
  One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
• JUDICIOUS
  Of or relating to a court; judicial. His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak. 2. Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet. He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The
• WINNOWING
  The act of one who, or that which, winnows.
• EXPEDIENTLY
  1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly.
• WINNARD
  The redwing.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• METROPOLITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.
• IMPOLITICNESS
  The quality of being impolitic.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• INEXPEDIENT
  Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
• IMPOLITICAL
  Impolitic. -- Im`po*lit"i*cal*ly, adv. Bacon.
• IMPRUDENT
  Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. -- Im*pru"dent*ly, adv. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype. Syn.