beneficial

beneficial

adjective

Definition of BENEFICIAL

promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being <tutoring can often be as beneficial and rewarding for the tutor as for the student receiving the help>

Synonyms advantageous, benefic, beneficent, benignant, favorable, friendly, good, helpful, kindly, profitable, salutary

Related Words gratifying, rewarding, satisfying; auspicious, promising, propitious; advisable, desirable, healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutiferous, wholesome; gainful, lucrative, remunerative; ameliorative, amelioratory, bettering, constructive, supportive

Near Antonyms damaging, deleterious, harmful, injurious, insalubrious

Antonyms bad, disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhelpful, unprofitable