Synonyms for beneficial
ˌbɛn əˈfɪʃ əlben·e·fi·cial

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1. beneficialadjective

   Antonyms:
   harmful, detrimental, unfavourable

2. beneficialadjective

   Recycling and reusing garbage can have beneficial effects on the environment.

   Antonyms:
   unfavourable, detrimental, harmful

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1. beneficial

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

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1. beneficial

   Synonyms:
   profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious

   Antonyms:
   prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental

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1. beneficial, goodadjective

   promoting or enhancing well-being

   "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"

   Synonyms:
   upright, dependable, just, right, full, undecomposed, ripe, estimable, honorable, expert, proficient, secure, in effect(p), effective, skillful, well(p), serious, skilful, salutary, good, unspoiled, in force(p), respectable, honest, practiced, adept, sound, near, unspoilt, dear, safe

   Antonyms:
   disadvantageous

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1. advantageous.

   Submitted by ahmedamr7383 on November 29, 2022  

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1. beneficialadjective

   Synonyms:
   useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, good, for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest

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1. beneficialadjective

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome

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1. List of paraphrases for "beneficial":

   advantageous, useful, favourable, positive, helpful, profitable, salutary, favorable, charitable, good, fruitful, win-win, worthwhile, conducive, benefit

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1. Richard Mihigo:

   During Ebola we lost many health workers to that disease, so the country has learned a great deal of how to put in place strict infection-prevention control measures, i think this will be something quite beneficial in the fight of corona.

2. Chyke Doubeni:

   But typically, they don't say' Oh, we have a problem. Let me see how I can work with the community to see what is beneficial for them,' and they especially don't do this from the beginning.

3. Plutarch:

   Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

4. Isa Kujawski:

   Beans are a heart healthy food which consist of fiber and a variety of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. They improve the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol, blood pressure, inflammation, and promoting digestive wellness, beans are rich in soluble fiber, which acts as food to beneficial gut bacteria to promote a healthy gut flora, which is an important factor in overall heart health.

5. Janja Garnbret:

   I think it will be really beneficial to climbing because climbing is still a young sport. It's super young, so it's definitely a huge playground for everyone, for sponsors, for some non-endemic sponsors that are still yet to come into our sport. That's definitely something huge.