beneficial
Helpful or good to something or someone.
Example
“Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment.”
Other meanings
Receiving a benefit from something.
“the beneficial owner of a company”
Relating to a benefice.
Related words
- beneficiality
- beneficially
- cardiobeneficial
- nonbeneficial
- renobeneficial
- unbeneficial
- beneficialness
- beneficial insect
- beneficial owner
Word history
From Latin "beneficium" (benefit, favor, kindness).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “beneficial” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.