Chapter Bel-esprit to Besmear of B by Soule's Synonymes

Beneficent, a.

1. Bountiful, benevolent, kind, liberal, generous, bounteous, princely, munificent.

2. Benign, favorable, beneficial, benignant, salutary.

Beneficial, a. Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, wholesome, favorable, good for one’s advantage, for one’s good, for one’s interest.

Benefit, n.

1. Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.

2. Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.

Benefit, v. a.

1. Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on, do a good turn or kind office to.

2. Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.

Benevolence, n.

1. Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, humaneness, philanthropy, tenderness, charitableness, good-will, altruism, unselfishness, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.

2. Charity, benefaction, beneficence, alms-giving, charitable effort(s).

Benevolent, a. Kind, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, obliging, humane, tender, charitable, generous, liberal, philanthropic, altruistic, unselfish, disposed to do good, full of good-will.

Benighted, a.

1. Overtaken by night, belated, out in the dark.

2. Involved in darkness, profoundly ignorant, sunk in ignorance, unenlightened.

Benign, a.

1. Kind, kindly, benevolent, gracious, complaisant, humane, obliging, benignant, good, amiable, gentle, friendly, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, of a gentle disposition.

2. Beneficent, most salutary, most propitious, most favorable, benignant, most wholesome, most beneficial.