Synonyms of benevolent

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benevolent

adjective

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1

as in compassionate

having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others

a benevolent willingness to provide veterinary services to low-income families at greatly reduced prices

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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2

as in charitable

having or showing a concern for the welfare of others

a benevolent businessman who has donated money and time to helping inner-city youths

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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