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What is "beneficial" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does beneficial mean in English? Meaning of beneficial definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "beneficial" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "beneficial": promoting or enhancing well-being

Adjective

  • Meaning: promoting or enhancing well-being
  • Example: an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries the beneficial effects of a temperate climate the experience was good for her
  • Synonyms: beneficial good
  • Similar: advantageous
  • Adjective: Helpful or good to something or someone. 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:  Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:  Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

    • Synonyms:

    profitable, good, useful, helpful, valuable, constructive, benign, favorable, gainful, healthful, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, wholesome, worthy, favoring, good for what ails you, what the doctor ordered,

    Antonyms:

    disadvantageous, useless, worthless, harmful, hurtful, injurious, unfortunate, bad, disagreeable, unhelpful, hurting, unrewarding,

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    beneficial in English: beneficial
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