Antonyms 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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. beneficial

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. beneficial

   Antonyms:
   prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental

   Synonyms:
   profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.8 / 11 votes

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"

   Antonyms:
   disadvantageous

   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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beneficialadjective

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome

How to use beneficial in a sentence?

1. Mark Mattson:

   If ketones are not elevated, you don't see the beneficial effects.

2. Paola Boffetta:

   There is very strong evidence that being active is beneficial throughout life not only for cardiovascular disease but for a very large number of chronic diseases and for osteoporosis and fractures.

3. Tim Potier:

   Solving the Cyprus problem will be beneficial not only to Cypriots themselves but to guarantors Greece and Turkey.

4. Khalid Hashim:

   If Indonesia bans tugs and barges from exporting coal then it will have to travel in larger cargo ships, of 32,000 to 64,000 tonnes, all this would of course be beneficial for shippers like us.

5. David Lola:

   Societally, this just can't be beneficial.

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