beneficient
/ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/
beneficient adjective: beneficent.
Adjective
beneficient (comparative more beneficient, superlative most beneficient)
- beneficent
- Last week. Dr. John Christian Krantz Jr., chemist and pharmacist at Johns Hopkins, announced that that laboratory of many a beneficient drug had created a salt substitute, which has proved palatable during a year's tests.1929, Time, 25 March, 1929, "Apple Salt," https://web.archive.org/web/20130721133038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846362,00.html
- And not the least, they smashed the racialist view of peasants as uncultured recipients of cultures from beneficient foreigners.1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Writers in Politics: Essays, London: Heinemann, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 47
Forms of beneficient
| comparative | more beneficient |
|---|---|
| superlative | most beneficient |
Origin of beneficient
Modification of beneficent after beneficial.
Words that rhyme with beneficient
- efficient
- sufficient
- coefficient
- deficient
- hyperdeficient
- inefficient
- insufficient
- omniscient
- perficient
- self-sufficient
- allicient
- bideficient
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- biodeficient
- calorifacient
- calorificient
- cogniscient
- cost-efficient
- ecoefficient
- eigencoefficient
- equiefficient
- haplodeficient
- haploinsufficient
- haploproficient
- haplosufficient
- hyperefficient
- immunodeficient
- immunoinsufficient
- immunosufficient
- indeficient
- lymphosufficient
- maleficient
- multideficient
- multiscient
- nondeficient
- nonefficient
- nonomniscient
- nonproficient
- nonsufficient
- objicient
- Pareto-efficient
- phosphodeficient
- piezocoefficient
- proficient
- projicient
- pseudodeficient
- subefficient
- superefficient
- superproficient
- ultraefficient
- undeficient
- unproficient
- unsufficient
Questions about beneficient
- What does beneficient mean?
- Beneficient means beneficent.
- What part of speech is beneficient?
- Beneficient is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce beneficient?
- Beneficient is pronounced /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/.
Words near beneficient in the dictionary
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