as in beneficial
promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being
the belief that participation in sports has a benefic influence on a young person
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Recent Examples of benefic
This would be equivalent to a cosmic blessing on your public image, compliments of the benefic planets.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Independently, both Jupiter and Venus are benefic planets that promote love, fortune, and expanded opportunities.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 14 Aug. 2017
Valerie Mesa, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Independently, both Jupiter and Venus are benefic planets that promote love, fortune, and expanded opportunities.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 14 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for benefic
Adjective
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Much of the discrepancy here is likely tied more to sleep than to something inherently beneficial about getting up at the crack of dawn.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
4 Sep. 2025
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That’s what enables The Foundation Drops to be so beneficial to the skin.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In the east, crews continued to build line between Wiseman Springs and Rancheria Creek, engaging the fire directly along its active edge where favorable.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Environmental conditions are favorable for development of this system, currently labeled as Invest 91L, and a tropical depression is likely to form over the weekend or early next week as the system moves slowly westward across the central tropical Atlantic.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Tennessean's Student of the Week is all about helpful upperclassmen this week.—
Gabrielle Chenault,
Nashville Tennessean,
8 Sep. 2025
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Granovetter found that a person’s casual or loose connections (weak ties) are more helpful than their strong ties.—
Carmine Gallo,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Benefic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/benefic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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