Entry Word: beneficial

Function: adjective

Meaning: conferring benefits; 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, favorable, helpful, profitable, salutary

Related Words gratifying, rewarding, satisfying; promising, propitious; advisable, desirable, healthful, healthy, salubrious, wholesome

Near Antonyms bad, damaging, deleterious, harmful, injurious, unfavorable, unhelpful

Antonyms disadvantageous, unfavorable, unhelpful