beneficial

Pluralbeneficials

1. 1
   adjective

   Having a good or helpful effect on a person or thing.

   Like sunlight for a plant: it helps it grow strong.

   Eating vegetables is beneficial for your health.

   The new rules were beneficial to small businesses.

   Similargood, helpful, advantageous, valuable, useful

   Oppositeharmful, detrimental, damaging, disadvantageous

2. 2
   nouncountable

   A thing that helps or does some good.

   We counted clean air as a real beneficial for the whole town.

   Lower costs were one of the project's biggest beneficials.

   Similarbenefit, advantage, plus

   Oppositedrawback, disadvantage

3. 3
   adjective

   Having to do with a church position that gives a priest income or land.

   The new priest received the beneficial income from his church.

   Old records show the beneficial lands once belonged to the monastery.

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