HOW TO PRONOUNCE
beneficial
/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
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What does beneficial mean?
adjective
- Helpful or good to something or someone.
- Receiving a benefit from something.
- Relating to a benefice.
More meanings (1)
noun
- Something that provides a benefit.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
“I am not well,” she presently added, “but it ‘s a moral malady, and in such cases I consider your company beneficial.”
The Adams' Administration, though checkered by divided counsels and by the machinations of party, was on the whole beneficial to the country.
More book examples (3)
Many of the Americans consider the instability of their laws as a necessary consequence of a system whose general results are beneficial.
The experiment is, at all events, worth a trial, and, in my opinion, it can but prove beneficial to the entire country.
Changed structures, which are in no way beneficial, cannot be kept uniform through natural selection, though the injurious will be thus eliminated.