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beneficial

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of beneficial

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 of beneficial

advantageous, benefic, beneficent, benignant, favorable, friendly, good, helpful, kindly, profitable, salutary

Words Related to beneficial

gratifying, rewarding, satisfying

auspicious, promising, propitious

advisable, desirable, healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutiferous, wholesome

gainful, lucrative, remunerative

ameliorative, amelioratory, bettering, constructive, supportive

Near Antonyms of beneficial

damaging, deleterious, harmful, injurious, insalubrious

Antonyms of beneficial

bad, disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhelpful, unprofitable

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