Synonyms for beneficial
ˌbɛn əˈfɪʃ əlben·e·fi·cial

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1. beneficialadjective

   Antonyms:
   harmful, detrimental, unfavourable

2. beneficialadjective

   Recycling and reusing garbage can have beneficial effects on the environment.

   Antonyms:
   unfavourable, detrimental, harmful

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1. beneficial

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, 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. beneficial

   Synonyms:
   profitable, salutary, advantageous, wholesome, salubrious

   Antonyms:
   prejudicial, noxious, hurtful, unprofitable, detrimental

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1. beneficial, goodadjective

   promoting or enhancing well-being

   "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"

   Synonyms:
   upright, dependable, just, right, full, undecomposed, ripe, estimable, honorable, expert, proficient, secure, in effect(p), effective, skillful, well(p), serious, skilful, salutary, good, unspoiled, in force(p), respectable, honest, practiced, adept, sound, near, unspoilt, dear, safe

   Antonyms:
   disadvantageous

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1. advantageous.

   Submitted by ahmedamr7383 on November 29, 2022  

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1. beneficialadjective

   Synonyms:
   useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, good, for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest

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1. beneficialadjective

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, salutary, profitable, useful, wholesome

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1. List of paraphrases for "beneficial":

   advantageous, useful, favourable, positive, helpful, profitable, salutary, favorable, charitable, good, fruitful, win-win, worthwhile, conducive, benefit

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1. Ron Wyden:

   Clearly, they have a clear decision to make. Do they want to reach out and support policies that would be beneficial to everybody, which would be that you would have to have the bipartisanship that was so dramatically lacking in the health care debate? this administration never had one substantive conversation with me about health care reform.

2. Nora Volkow:

   There have been a couple of papers that have reported actually some beneficial effects of marijuana smoking and the use of other drugs, but there also was one other paper that reported the opposite.

3. Jereon Brown:

   The experience would be beneficial, but the chief of staff that's most effective is the one that knows what questions to ask, he is a very even tempered and thoughtful professional. He is very good at seeking advice and he makes an effort to consider views of career staff.

4. Ron DeSantis:

   If the legislature goes down that route I think that would be very beneficial, it would strike a good balance between penalizing the politicians who flouted the law but also not doing that in a way that’s ham handed and may deprive some innocent school kid of the ability to participate in a certain program.

5. Julie Wylie-Rosett:

   I don't think there has ever been a head-to-head comparison of an anti-inflammatory dietary pattern versus the use of drugs, food is medicine, but it is hard to compare medicine that is created in a lab with something that is grown in the ground to determine what is going to be beneficial.