welfare

welfare

noun

Definition of WELFARE

the state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success <the social worker was pleased at the improvement in the child's welfare>

Synonyms good, interest, weal, well-being

Related Words fortune, prosperity, prosperousness, success, successfulness; fitness, health, healthiness, robustness, soundness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness; bliss, felicity, happiness, joy; advantage, benefit, gain, sake; content, contentedness, gratification, satisfaction

Near Antonyms unhealthiness, unsoundness; misery, sadness, suffering, unhappiness, wretchedness

Antonyms ill-being