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benevolent
Synonyms and Antonyms of benevolent
- a benevolent willingness to provide veterinary services to low-income families at greatly reduced prices
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
- a benevolent businessman who has donated money and time to helping inner-city youths
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