Synonyms of benefits

benefits 1 of 2

noun

plural of benefit

1

as in advantages

a thing that helps

it would be a real benefit if you could keep track of what you have already bought

Synonyms & Similar Words

• advantages
• assets
• resources
• boons
• help
• aids
• blessings
• hands
• lifts
• windfalls
• supports
• sustenances
• refuges
• recourses
• pick-me-ups
• resorts
• godsends

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disadvantages
• drawbacks
• impediments
• hindrances
• encumbrances
• liabilities
• obstacles
• constraints
• minuses
• restraints
• inhibitors
• obstructions
• strangleholds

2

as in blessings

something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing

the meal service is a great benefit to invalids and the elderly

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blessings
• boons
• bonuses
• gifts
• windfalls
• goods
• felicities
• advantages
• reliefs
• benedictions
• godsends
• mannas
• consolations
• mercies
• joys
• assistances
• graces
• supports
• pleasures
• delights
• help
• aids
• comforts
• favors
• solaces
• extras
• mitzvoth
• anodynes
• lagniappes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• evils
• curses
• afflictions
• plagues
• disadvantages
• scourges
• nuisances
• pests
• irritants
• banes
• trials
• bothers
• tribulations
• miseries
• jinxes
• hoodoos
• crosses
• hexes

benefits

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of benefit

as in helps

to provide with something useful or desirable

his summer internship benefited him in two ways: by giving him some tuition funds and by offering vital work experience

Synonyms & Similar Words

• advantages
• helps
• avails
• aids
• profits
• serves
• assists
• succeeds
• works (for)
• pleases
• delights
• satisfies
• improves
• contents
• blesses
• betters
• gratifies
• gladdens

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hinders
• impedes
• damages
• hurts
• harms
• impairs
• injures
• upsets
• afflicts
• distresses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of benefits

Noun

The result is a growing chasm between how the people building AI think about its benefits and how ordinary Americans think about its costs. — Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

After all, Kennedy said the benefits of a successful Anthropic listing could extend well into next year. — Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

The Upper Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has tended to be more resilient as its groundwater benefits from melting snow coursing down the Rocky Mountains. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Rhoads said open space benefits communities in multiple ways. — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

The benefits from the technology will last for years, but the size of the physical footprint will not. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 20 Oct. 2026

Recycling also uses about one-quarter of the water and energy required to extract new metals, with the greatest benefits achieved when processing manufacturing scrap. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Through their relationship, New York Zakat Inc benefits from the services of a professional grant-making staff of one of the largest philanthropic organizations in New York City. — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026

More broadly, Goldman CEO David Solomon spent time on the call talking about the importance of artificial intelligence — both the benefits and the risks to business at the bank. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026

Verb

Americans, meanwhile, are weighing who benefits, who bears the costs—and who is accountable when things go wrong. — Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

The faceless, hulking boxes have become a proxy for the whole argument about AI—its water use, its demands on power and land, the question of who benefits from it all. — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

When people can’t easily find out how much water and power a site will use, or who actually benefits, politicians fill the gap with rhetoric. — Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

This helps lower the complex’s overall electricity costs, which benefits residents. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026

More studies could help clarify who benefits most, especially people with IBS who are sensitive to FODMAPs. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

The Women’s Guild Cedars-Sinai fundraiser benefits the Women’s Guild Neurology Project and the Women’s Guild Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai’s newest expansion, Guerin Children’s. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026

With 26 timepieces, all unique and specially made for TimeForArt, the biennial sale benefits the Swiss Institute, a nonprofit art institution in New York City that offers free public exhibitions, programs, and educational workshops. — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2026

But MacDonald said that, anecdotally, the payoff is that the dam removals restored a more free-flowing river that benefits fish and people. — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026