beneficial Definition
ben·efi·cial (ben′ə fis̸h′əl)
adjective
- producing benefits; advantageous; favorable
- receiving benefit
- Law for one's own benefit beneficial interest
Etymology: ME < OFr < LL beneficialis < L benefacere: see benefaction
beneficial Related Forms
ben′·efi′·cially adverb
beneficial Synonyms
beneficial Law Definition
n
beneficial Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
find: Indeed anyone who will have a leadership role in an IT project will find this course beneficial.
Modifies a noun
- insect: With Bt maize, the reduction in use of insecticides should result in less harm to beneficial insects.
- bacterium: It has been shown to restore normal bowel flora by promoting the growth of beneficial bacteria.
- effect: In our research, the beneficial effects of red wine can be extended to sherry wines.
- owner: Talyllyn Holdings is the beneficial owner of all the shares in the Talyllyn Railroad Company.
- ownership: The assets are held in beneficial ownership for its staff.
- organism: They also kill beneficial organisms allowing pathogens to thrive.
Modifying Another Word
- mutually: These links can be mutually beneficial - for instance giving coverage to local gay businesses.
- environmentally: These subsidies should either be cut altogether or be redirected toward more environmentally beneficial practices.
- hugely: She then trained in hypnotherapy after seeing the hugely beneficial effects of hypnosis in her own clients.
- socially: Aristotle conceives of friendship in a utilitarian and socially beneficial manner.
- enormously: He felt that the transparency of the plans would be enormously beneficial to the University.
- extremely: They are, however, extremely beneficial in reducing the amount of waste needing to be disposed of.
Used with adjective complement
- prove: In this case a working knowledge of Crystal reports will prove beneficial.
- deem: To educate a child regarding the dangers of alcohol was deemed more beneficial than waiting until they had succumbed.
- consider: A local thickening of the adhesive through the use of an internal taper is also considered beneficial.
Preposition: in
- term: Affleck ( 1987 ) highlight, this may be beneficial in terms of coping as self-attribution may have negative outcomes personally.
- treatment: This site collects articles from around the world which argue that cannabis can be beneficial in the treatment of some conditions.
Preposition: for
patient: However, some contractures may be biomechanically beneficial for the patient, and these should not be stretched [ 38, 39 ] .
Preposition: than
hundred: This means that a couple links from pages with high PR could be more beneficial than hundreds of links from pages with low PR.
Browse dictionary entries near beneficial
- ‹ beneficent
- ‹ beneficence
- ‹ benefice
- ‹ benefic
- ‹ benefactress
- ‹ benefactor
- ‹ benefaction
- ‹ Benedictus
- ‹ benediction
- ‹ Benedictine

