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. 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.

2. 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.