beneficial
/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
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Australia/ˌben.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
beneficial adjective: helpful or good to something or someone.
Adjective
beneficial (comparative more beneficial, superlative most beneficial)
- Helpful or good to something or someone.
- Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment.
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
- Synonyms:
- advantageous, behooveful, helpful, useful, positive
- Receiving a benefit from something.
- the beneficial owner of a company
- Relating to a benefice.
- Synonyms:
- usufructuary, usufructuous
Noun
beneficial (plural beneficials)
- Something that provides a benefit.
- Daytime temperatures may be too hot for just-released beneficials, and birds and other predators are out in full force during the day.1997, Insect Control Guide, volume 9, Meister Publishing, page 29
beneficial meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
beneficial in Hindi
- helpful or good to something or someone
- लाभदायक lābhdāyak, हितकारी hitkārī, लाभप्रद lābhaprad
beneficial in Tamil
- நலடைவான, நலந்தரு, நலம் பயக்கிற, நலம் பயக்கும், பயனுள்ள
beneficial in Urdu
- مدد گار, مفید, سود مند
beneficial in Bengali
- beneficial
- উপকারী upokari
More languagesFewer languages
- beneficial in Malayalam
- ഗുണപ്രദമായ
- beneficial in Kannada
- ಬಳಕೆಗಾಗುವ, ಬಳಕೆಗೆ ಬರುವ
- beneficial in Punjabi
- ਫ਼ਾਇਦੇਮੰਦ
- beneficial in Gujarati
- લાભદાયક lābhdāyak, લાભદાયી lābhdāyī, ફાયદાકારક phāyadākārak
- beneficial in Odia
- ଭଲ bhala
- beneficial in Sanskrit
- कल्याण kalyā́ṇa
- beneficial in Arabic
- مُفِيد mufīd
- beneficial in Persian
- مفید mofid, سودمند sôdmand
Examples of beneficial in a sentence
- If you mow regularly, a mulching mower will be beneficial to your lawn.
- The air there is beneficial to health.
- Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
Synonyms of beneficial
Antonyms
Forms of beneficial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more beneficial |
| superlative | most beneficial |
| alternative misspelling | benefitial |
| Noun | |
| plural | beneficials |
Origin of beneficial
From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).
Words formed from beneficial
Phrases with beneficial
Words that rhyme with beneficial
- official
- superficial
- artificial
- judicial
- unofficial
- initial
- prejudicial
- adventitial
- comitial
- extrajudicial
- interstitial
- sacrificial
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Questions about beneficial
- What does beneficial mean?
- Beneficial means helpful or good to something or someone.
- What is beneficial in Hindi?
- Beneficial in Hindi is लाभदायक (lābhdāyak), हितकारी (hitkārī), लाभप्रद (lābhaprad). See Beneficial meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is beneficial?
- Beneficial can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce beneficial?
- Beneficial is pronounced /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/ (UK).
Words near beneficial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: beneficial (page history and authors); beneficial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beneficial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উপকারী (Bengali) (page history and authors); beneficial (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beneficial (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); beneficial (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ફાયદાકારક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଭଲ (Odia) (page history and authors); कल्याण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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