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:
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1. disadvantage

   benefit,disgust and repulse

   Submitted by anonymous on January 5, 2021  

How to use benefit in a sentence?

1. Daniel Horowitz:

   We do have a net benefit of a presidential election, where you have prominent people at the top of the ticket discussing those issues and forcing some of those individual candidates downballot to go on the record.

2. Scott Petri:

   Petri told Fox News. That’s in contrast with the 54 percent brick-and-mortar slots rate, Petri said. Petri added that brick and mortar casinos argue that they incur more costs, so online platforms should not be given the benefit of a better tax rate. Petri says he will try to bring the parties together toward a solution in the coming days. As chairman of the committee, I think it’s important that I be an honest broker.

3. Stephen Grebing:

   We really looked for a reason why the restrictions were put in place, it might be a little bit of money, because we know that pro and college sports generate big money. It might have been a safety issue. I’ll give the state the benefit of the doubt on that. But we really couldn’t find a bona fide or legitimate reason why they banned high school sports.

4. Adam Schiff:

   It's important to remember that none of these emails had any classification markings at the time they were sent, and Secretary Clinton and her staff were responding to world events in real time without the benefit of months of analysis after the fact.

5. Arthur Hays Sulzberger:

   Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.

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