Synonyms for beneficial
- adjective
Most common
advantageous useful helpful profitable usufructuary usufructuous good
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Advantageous — helpful or good to something or someone
advantageous, useful, helpful, favorable US, favourable UK, profitable, salutary, desirable, positive, propitious, gainful, serviceable, behooveful dated
2. Usufructuary — relating to a benefice
3. Salubrious
Definitions
- adj. 1
Helpful or good to something or someone.
Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment.
- adj. 2
Relating to a benefice.
- adj. 3
Receiving a benefit from something.
the beneficial owner of a company
Example sentences
- useful Rocks and minerals are useful for us in many ways.
- helpful It isn't really helpful to translate word by word.
- favorable Algeria has a favorable geography for agriculture.
- advantageous This marriage will be advantageous to his career.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| beneficial | steady | |
| useful | steady | |
| helpful | steady | |
| favorable | falling | |
| advantageous | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1
- 6 letters
- useful2
- 7 letters
- helpful2, gainful2
- 8 letters
- positive3, salutary4
- 9 letters
- favorable4, desirable4, wholesome2
- 10 letters
- profitable4, favourable, propitious3, salubrious, behooveful
- 11 letters
- serviceable4
- 12 letters
- advantageous4, usufructuary, usufructuous
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (useful2 = 2 syllables).