Synonyms of beneficent

beneficent

adjective

bə-ˈne-fə-sənt 

1

as in benevolent

having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others

a beneficent couple who are regular volunteers at a homeless shelter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• benevolent
• compassionate
• kind
• sympathetic
• humane
• gentle
• thoughtful
• gracious
• benignant
• kindly
• nice
• merciful
• friendly
• generous
• kindhearted
• good
• sweet
• pleasant
• tender
• good-hearted
• humanitarian
• attentive
• warmhearted
• softhearted
• benign
• tenderhearted
• warm
• patient
• considerate
• solicitous
• mild
• charitable
• noble
• affable
• genial
• pitying
• good-natured
• soft
• forbearing
• neighborly
• companionable
• amicable
• cordial
• munificent
• lenient
• magnanimous
• philanthropic
• liberal
• forgiving
• unselfish
• altruistic
• comradely
• tolerant
• selfless
• understanding
• good-tempered
• brotherly
• clement
• unsparing
• openhearted
• freehanded
• greathearted
• cruelty-free
• anticruelty

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cruel
• barbarous
• savage
• vicious
• unkind
• brutal
• inhuman
• callous
• sadistic
• heartless
• ruthless
• fiendish
• unsympathetic
• bestial
• barbaric
• brute
• inhumane
• unfeeling
• pitiless
• truculent
• atrocious
• insensate
• brutish
• merciless
• thoughtless
• insensitive
• unthinking
• severe
• uncaring
• inconsiderate
• harsh
• hard-hearted
• stern
• uncompassionate
• grim
• unkindly
• malignant
• cold-blooded
• wanton
• tough
• malevolent
• malicious
• mean
• hateful
• malign
• unsentimental
• spiteful
• virulent
• nasty
• ironhearted
• stonyhearted
• uncharitable
• heavy-handed
• hard-boiled
• antihumanitarian

2

as in charitable

having or showing a concern for the welfare of others

a beneficent effort to help out the needy during the holidays

Synonyms & Similar Words

• benevolent
• charitable
• philanthropic
• humanitarian
• good
• generous
• altruistic
• do-good
• eleemosynary
• handsome
• liberal
• humane
• selfless
• munificent
• compassionate
• magnanimous
• unselfish
• bountiful
• free
• bounteous
• kind
• kindhearted
• unsparing
• self-sacrificing
• openhanded
• openhearted
• bighearted
• freehanded
• greathearted
• social-minded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• selfish
• self-centered
• parsimonious
• stingy
• cheap
• miserly
• pitiless
• self-seeking
• tight
• self-concerned
• tightfisted
• unfeeling
• hard-hearted
• self-indulgent
• closefisted
• self-obsessed

3

as in beneficial

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• beneficial
• favorable
• helpful
• good
• profitable
• friendly
• salutary
• satisfying
• advantageous
• benignant
• desirable
• kindly
• benefic
• lucrative
• propitious
• promising
• rewarding
• auspicious
• healthful
• gratifying
• healthy
• supportive
• wholesome
• advisable
• gainful
• constructive
• remunerative
• salubrious
• ameliorative
• salutiferous
• bettering
• amelioratory

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bad
• unfavorable
• unfriendly
• unprofitable
• disadvantageous
• unhelpful
• harmful
• injurious
• deleterious
• damaging
• insalubrious

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of beneficent

With the monetary system in a free-fall, some Iranians would rather have a beneficent king than all these pretenders oh-so-interested in the people. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026

But in Las Vegas, where spectacle-over-substance is kind of the whole point, the Wizard was a beneficent showman. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025

Far away from the old, broken planet, a libertarian utopia will flourish, under the beneficent sway of the Elon. — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025

Both center-left and center-right in the West coalesce around calls for more porous borders, freer trade, and open minds, calling them either inevitable or beneficent, or more often both at once. — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018