Synonyms for beneficent
bəˈnɛf ə səntbenef·i·cent

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1. beneficentadjective

   Synonyms:
   generous

   Antonyms:
   maleficent

2. beneficentadjective

   Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.

   Synonyms:
   generous

   Antonyms:
   maleficent

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1. beneficent

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, beneficial, 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. beneficent

   Synonyms:
   bountiful, benevolent, benignant

   Antonyms:
   hard, uncommiserating, griping, unbeneficent, illiberal, oppressive, cruel

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1. beneficentadjective

   doing or producing good

   "the most beneficent regime in history"

   Synonyms:
   philanthropic, eleemosynary, benevolent

   Antonyms:
   malevolent, maleficent, evil, uncharitable, malefic, malign, baneful, baleful

2. beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropicadjective

   generous in assistance to the poor

   "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions"

   Synonyms:
   large-hearted, kindly, sympathetic, benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, philanthropic, eleemosynary, freehearted, openhearted

   Antonyms:
   maleficent, evil, baneful, malevolent, baleful, uncharitable, malign, malefic

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1. beneficentadjective

   Synonyms:
   benevolent, charitable, philanthropic, magnanimous, benignant

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1. List of paraphrases for "beneficent":

   rahman, al-rahman, rohman, rehman

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How to use beneficent in a sentence?

1. Charles Robert Darwin:

   The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.

2. H. G. Wells:

   ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.