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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
having a good or favorable effect; helpful.
Eating fruits and vegetables is beneficial to your health.The chicken soup was beneficial to my cough.- synonyms:
- advantageous, favorable, profitable
- antonyms:
- adverse, bad, damaging, deadly, detrimental, harmful, ill, useless
- similar words:
- helpful, positive, productive, valuable
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| related words: |
advisable, constructive, convenient, useful |
| derivations: |
beneficially (adv.), beneficialness (n.) |
The word beneficial
contains the following parts:
ben, bene, bon
Latin
root
that means good, well
  Example words:
- synonyms:
- eu
- antonyms:
- mal, male
fac, fic, fec, fact, fect
Latin
root
that means make, do
More about this word part:
This root is also the origin of the suffixes "-fy, -ify, -efy" and "-ification, -efaction".
Example words:
affect, affection, artificial, beneficial, benefit, deficient, effect, efficient, fact, factory, fiction, infect, manufacture, sacrifice, satisfaction, satisfactory, significant, sufficient
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