Word Study
benefic |
benefice |
beneficed |
beneficeless |
beneficence |
beneficent
| beneficential
| beneficently
| beneficial
| beneficially
| beneficialness
HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
beneficent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective beneficent has 2 senses
- beneficent(a = adj.all) Array - doing or producing good; "the most beneficent regime in history" Derived forms noun beneficence2, noun beneficence1, verb benefit2
- beneficent(s = adj.all) benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic - generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions"
Antonym: maleficent
CIDE DICTIONARY
beneficent, a.
Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. [1913 Webster]
"The beneficent fruits of Christianity."
[1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Benevolent.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
beneficent, adj. doing good; generous, actively kind.
Derivative
beneficence n. beneficently adv.
Etymology
L beneficent- (as BENEFICE)
THESAURUS
beneficent
almsgiving, altruistic, amicable, benevolent, benign, benignant, bighearted, charitable, cooperative, eleemosynary, favorable, freehearted, friendly, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, neighborly, philanthropic, propitious, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meantROGET THESAURUS
beneficent
Benevolence
N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.
For further exploring for "beneficent" in Webster Dictionary Online