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Synonyms for benignant

  • adjective

Most common

kindly humane gracious benign

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Kindly — kind; gracious; favorable

kind, kindly, gracious, benign, humane, compassionate, benevolent, merciful, amiable, propitious, beneficent, charitable, sympathetic, clement, obliging

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Kind; gracious; favorable.

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or Benignant?

The benignant are calmly kind, as from a height and a distance.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • kindly Kindly clear the table after you finish your meal.
  • humane Isn't that the most humane punishment for criminals?
  • gracious I didn't know that you are such a gracious person.
  • benign Various types of tumors exist, both benign and malignant.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
benignantsteady
kindlysteady
humanefalling
graciousrising
benignrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
kind1
6 letters
kindly2, humane2, benign2
7 letters
clement2, amiable4
8 letters
gracious2, merciful3, obliging3
10 letters
charitable4, benevolent4, propitious3, beneficent4
11 letters
sympathetic4
13 letters
compassionate4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (kindly2 = 2 syllables).