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- pronunciation:
- be
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- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
When something is beneficial, it does something good for people or things.
Water and sunshine are usually beneficial to plants, but too much water or sun can sometimes be bad.Healthy food is beneficial to humans.Exercising is beneficial to your health.- synonyms:
- favorable, profitable
- antonyms:
- bad, damaging, deadly, harmful, ill, useless
- similar words:
- helpful, positive, valuable
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| related words: |
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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