adj
Meaning 1
Given to acts that are kind, charitable, philanthropic or beneficial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: benevolent, generous, magnanimous
- beneficent spirit
- beneficent influence
- beneficent ruler
- The monk was remembered as a beneficent figure in the village.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: benevolent, generous, magnanimous
Antonyms: maleficent, maleficient, malevolent, malicious, evil, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, demonic, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, malign, malignant, naughty, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong