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unbenefited

unbenefited adjective: having received no benefit.

Adjective

unbenefited (not comparable)

  1. Having received no benefit.
    • The zealous citizens would suspend their avocations for a while, would repeat a reverential prayer as the holy men went by, and then return to the absorbing calls of business, not unbenefited by the recollections just awakened in their minds.1843 October, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXXVI
    • Ought a possibly large number, Swithin included, to remain unbenefited, because the one individual to whom his release would be an injury chanced to be herself?1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 95

Forms of unbenefited

alternative formunbenefitted

Origin of unbenefited

From un- + benefited.

Questions about unbenefited

What does unbenefited mean?
Unbenefited means having received no benefit.
What part of speech is unbenefited?
Unbenefited is an adjective.

Words near unbenefited in the dictionary

  1. unbends
  2. unbeneficed
  3. unbeneficent
  4. unbeneficial
  5. unbenefitable
  6. unbenefited
  7. unbenefiting
  8. unbenefitted
  9. unbenefitting
  10. unbenevolence
  11. unbenevolent

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