Synonyms for beneficent
bəˈnɛf ə sənt

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1. beneficent(adj)

   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, philanthropic(adj)

   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. beneficent(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   generous

   Antonyms:
   maleficent

2. beneficent(adjective)

   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. beneficent(a)

   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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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. Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS:

   To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

3. Alexander Hamilton:

   The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

4. 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.

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