Beneficial: alternatives and connections

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

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Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

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Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

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An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

Beneficial overlaps with good, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

Creates an advantage or positive effect.

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

Beneficial means producing a positive effect.