Antonyms for benefit
ˈbɛn ə fɪtben·e·fit

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1. benefitnoun

   Antonyms:
   detriment, encumbrance, malefic, hindrance, obstacle, nuisance, disadvantage

   Synonyms:
   help, batten, aid, subsidy, assistance, boon, foredeal, advantage

2. benefitverb

   To be or to provide a benefit to.

   Antonyms:
   encumbrance, detriment, malefic, disadvantage, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle

   Synonyms:
   assistance, foredeal, boon, aid, help, subsidy, advantage, batten

3. benefitnoun

   A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

   Antonyms:
   detriment, obstacle, malefic, disadvantage, nuisance, hindrance, encumbrance

   Synonyms:
   batten, help, subsidy, boon, advantage, foredeal, assistance, aid

4. benefitnoun

   A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause.

   Synonyms:
   subsidy, boon, foredeal, assistance, help, advantage, aid

   Antonyms:
   detriment, encumbrance, obstacle, disadvantage, nuisance, hindrance

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. benefit

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. benefit

   Antonyms:
   evil, loss, disadvantage, detriment, damage, calamity, bereavement, injury, privation

   Synonyms:
   boon, behoof, service, utility, avail, use, good, advantage, profit, favor, blessing

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. benefitnoun

   financial assistance in time of need

   Synonyms:
   welfare

2. benefit, welfarenoun

   something that aids or promotes well-being

   "for the benefit of all"

   Synonyms:
   eudaemonia, social welfare, public assistance, well-being, wellbeing, eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare

3. benefitverb

   a performance to raise money for a charitable cause

   Synonyms:
   welfare

4. profit, gain, benefitverb

   derive a benefit from

   "She profited from his vast experience"

   Synonyms:
   clear, gain ground, derive, acquire, realise, gain, reach, win, get ahead, make headway, attain, turn a profit, bring in, put on, take in, pull in, gather, do good, profit, hit, arrive at, advance, realize, pull ahead, make, earn

5. benefit, do goodverb

   be beneficial for

   "This will do you good"

   Synonyms:
   do good, gain, profit

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1. benefitnoun

   Synonyms:
   avail, profit, behalf, advantage, service

2. benefitverb

   Synonyms:
   help, conduce, avail, advantage, be useful to, do good to

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BENEFIT

   Synonyms:
   Betaseron in Newly Emerging Multiple Sclerosis for Initial Treatment trial

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. disadvantage

   benefit,disgust and repulse

   Submitted by anonymous on January 5, 2021  

How to use benefit in a sentence?

1. Gregory Peters:

   Uncertainty will be a multi-year event, which will clearly benefit the U.S. from rates to risk assets (except for financials), as the U.S. will benefit from capital flows.

2. Ann Kutney-Lee:

   Patients who are treated in long-term care, rehabilitation and psychiatric facilities without the benefit of ah EHR may be at risk of poorer coordination of services and potentially lower quality of care.

3. David McIntosh:

   Bringing back earmarks is the antithesis of draining the swamp, earmarks will only benefit the special interests that grow government at the expense of working men and women.

4. John Morton:

   Maybe that should be reexamined, especially because Medicare patients are some of our highest-risk patients who could benefit even more.

5. Masud Rahman:

   We told to the chief executive of BOI that entrepreneurs can not reap benefit of country's attractive investment regime because of mainly lack of infrastructure that include roads and highways, ports, energy and gas.

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