Synonyms and Antonyms of beneficent
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having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others
- a beneficent couple who are regular volunteers at a homeless shelter
benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm
clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft
patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding
altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing
anticruelty, cruelty-free
ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking
grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental
hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent
antihumanitarian, uncharitable
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton
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having or showing a concern for the welfare of others
- a beneficent effort to help out the needy during the holidays
selfless, self-sacrificing
bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, unselfish, unsparing
compassionate, humane, kind, kindhearted
social-minded
self-indulgent, self-seeking
cheap, closefisted, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, stingy, tight, tightfisted
hard-hearted, pitiless, unfeeling
self-obsessed
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promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being
- cultural activities have a beneficent effect on a community that can't be measured in dollars and cents
advantageous, benefic, beneficial, benignant, favorable, friendly, good, helpful, kindly, profitable, salutary
gratifying, rewarding, satisfying
auspicious, promising, propitious
advisable, desirable, healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutiferous, wholesome
gainful, lucrative, remunerative
ameliorative, amelioratory, bettering, constructive, supportive
