Beneficial

Definitions: Beneficial

Beneficial

Adjective

1. Promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her".

2. Tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air".

Date "beneficial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BENDEX	English	Beneficial Data Exchange	Social Sciences
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Beneficial

Synonyms: good (adj), salutary (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Good	Adjective: commendable; useful; good; beneficial.
Inexpedience	Verb: be beneficial; Adjective:; produce good, do good; profit; (be of use); benefit; confer a benefit.
	Beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable; (useful); advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary; (healthful).
Property	Interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure; (possession); vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin, seisin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's so beneficial for me to be away from those children in junior high and to be with people of my own mature growth. (The Brady Bunch; writing credit: Lois Peyser; Martin Ragaway)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial Natural Enemies and Their Use in Pest Management (reference) Biological Effects of Electric and Magnetic Fields: Beneficial and Harmful Effects (reference) Biosolids Treatment and Management: Processes for Beneficial Use (Environmental Science and Pollution Control, 18) (reference) Chlorella: The Sun-Powered Supernutrient and Its Beneficial Properties (reference) Formulation of Microbial Biopesticides - Beneficial Microorganisms, Nematodes and Seed Treatments (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An NRCS range specialist assists a landowner with identifying grasses beneficial to good range management.Credit: Tim McCabe.		Iological aide Kyra Williams removes a beneficial insect, Encarsia formosa,from leaves to ship to scientists who are studying biological control of the whitefly. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
	Convergent lady beetles, Hippodamia convergens, are imported for study at the ARS Beneficial Insects Introduction Research Laboratory in Newark, Delaware. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		Physical Therapy Department, Deshon General Hospital, Butler, Pennsylvania : AETNA Steerometer - very beneficial for knee and ankle exercise.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles M. Schultz	Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
John Kenneth Galbraith	Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
Thomas Carlyle	No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	And tho' all the fruits it naturally produces, and beasts it feeds, belong to mankind in common, as they are produced by the spontaneous hand of nature; and no body has originally a private dominion, exclusive of the rest of mankind, in any of them, as they are thus in their natural state: yet being given for the use of men, there must of necessity be a means to appropriate them some way or other, before they can be of any use, or at all beneficial to any particular man. (Second Treatise of Government)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	Special associations between members of the United Nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Cloisters, although beneficial in the first training of modern civilisation, cramped its growth, and are injurious to its development.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		For some patients, surgery may be beneficial. (references)
		Two experiments suggest that affecting HDL may be beneficial. (references)
		Plastic reconstructive surgery may be beneficial in some individuals. (references)
Business		NatWest also suggests that it may be beneficial to run a pilot program for 12 to 18 months. (references)
		This reputation can be beneficial for other U.S. companies attempting to enter the German market. (references)
		This is particularly beneficial for foreign firms that are unfamiliar with business conditions in Singapore. (references)
Civil Liberties	Poland	Pursuant to the law, statutory provisions are applied retroactively if their terms are beneficial to the accused. (references)
Economic History	Poland	Distributor and agent agreements may take any form beneficial to the parties involved. (references)
	Australia	Are devices that enable the separation of legal and beneficial interests in assets and the income derived therein. (references)
Political Economy	Latvia	Bilateral relations with the United States remain positive and mutually beneficial. (references)
	Panama	President Mireya Moscoso, who spent some years in the United States during the Torrijos and Noriega dictatorships, favors a close, mutually beneficial relationship with the United States. (references)
	Georgia	While Georgia's Western orientation and desire to end the Russian military presence are strong, the country is being affected by economic problems, growing popular nostalgia for the materially more beneficial "old days", and frustration over the apparent lack of results from legislated reforms. (references)
Trade	Singapore	Singapore uses the metric system, so it is often beneficial for price/quantity quotations to be prepared accordingly. (references)
	Cape Verde	The CECV's structure is allowing it to offer relatively quick service which is highly beneficial to the development of the private sector. (references)
	Nicaragua	OPIC offers loans and loan guarantees for projects with a minimum 25 percent U.S. investor beneficial interest, and political risk insurance covering currency inconvertibility, expropriation, and political violence. (references)
Travel	Mexico	Newcomers may find it beneficial to drink plenty of water. (references)
	Argentina	Although not essential, it is beneficial to have cards printed in Spanish, as well as English. (references)
	Canada	A recognition that French is the primary language spoken by a large number of Canadians will be greatly beneficial in helping build relationships with Canadian business partners in Quebec and in other French-speaking areas of the country. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	The beneficial effects of the small naval armament provided under the acts of the last session are known and acknowledged.
James Madison	1809-1817	Such an institution, though local in its legal character, would be universal in its beneficial effects.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Our commercial relations with all those States are mutually beneficial and increasing.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Its beneficial results are already experienced in the composition of the Army, and their influence is felt in the intellectual progress of society.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Some more liberal policy than that which now prevails in reference to this unfortunate class of citizens is certainly due to them, and would prove beneficial to the country.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Lifting the basic minimum wage is necessary, it is justified as a matter of simple equity to workers, and it will prove not only feasible but also directly beneficial to the Nation's employers.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We are prepared to work with the government of Iran to develop a new and mutually beneficial relationship.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Beneficial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Beneficial" is used about 1,391 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	98.78%	1,374	5,815
Noun (proper)	1.22%	17	85,106
Total	100.00%	1,391	N/A

Expressions using "beneficial": beneficial interest ♦ beneficial owner ♦ beneficial rain ♦ beneficial water use ♦ interdependent mutualist mutually beneficial ♦ mutually beneficial. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "beneficial": cost-beneficial, non-beneficial.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "beneficial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mirëbërës (benefactor, charitable, well doer), i dobishëm (beneficent, effective, good, handy, helpful, instrumental, pay, profitable, salutary, serviceable, subservient, useful, wholesome). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفيد (advantageous, available, gainful, helpful, of use, profitable, purposive, salutary, serviceable, stead, useful, wholesome), ‏مستفيد, ‏مساعد (accessory, accomplice, advantageous, aid, ancillary, assistance, auxiliary, backing, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, subsidiary, supplementary, support, useful), ‏نافع (serviceable, subservient, useful, valuable), ‏صاحب إستفادة. (various references)

Bulgarian		благотворен (helpful, salutary, wholesome), ползотворен (salutary, useful), полезен (advantageous, good, handy, helpful, profitable, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome), плодотворен (fruitful, seminal). (various references)

Chinese		有利 (Advantageous, Favorable, favourable, profitability, Vantage). (various references)

Czech		blahodárný (benign, salutary, soothing, wholesome), užiteèný (good, handy, helpful, profitable, salutary, subservient, useful, valuable, worthwhile), prospìšný (expedient, good, rewarding, salutary, serviceable, subservient), příznivý (auspicious, benign, fair, favorable, favourable, hopeful, hospitable, promising, propitiatory, propitious, prosperous). (various references)

Danish		regulering af et reservoir ved at kombinere maksimal udnyttelse og oversvoemmelsesprognoser (reservoir regulation by combining maximum beneficial use and control of design flood), rationelt vandforbrug (beneficial water use), nytteinsekt (beneficial insect, useful insect), egentlig ejer (beneficial owner), den egentlige ejers ret (beneficial interest). (various references)

Dutch		biologische teeltwijze (biological farming, farming practices which are beneficial to the environment), vruchtgebruik hebbend (beneficial interest), uiteindelijke gerechtigde (beneficial owner), reservoirregeling als combinatie van meest effectief gebruik en inachtneming van ontwerp-hoogwater (reservoir regulation by combining maximum beneficial use and control of design flood), nuttige insekten (beneficial insects), nuttig waterverbruik (beneficial water use), nuttig insekt (beneficial insect, useful insect), milieusparende teeltmethode (biological farming, farming practices which are beneficial to the environment), milieuminnende verbouw (biological farming, farming practices which are beneficial to the environment), de mogelijkheden en middelen te bestuderen ter bevordering van concrete initiatieven voor een wederzijds voordelige samenwerking met betrekking tot verschillende economische, wetenschappelijke en culturele gebieden (in addition to other initiatives relating to the above subjects already under way, scientific and cultural fields, to consider the possibilities and means of promoting concrete initiatives for mutually beneficial co-operation concerning various economic). (various references)

Farsi		پرمنفعت (Lucrative), مفید (Effect, Good, Instrumental, Profitable, Remedial, Useful), نافع (Lucrative), سودمند (Available, Commodious, Good, Handy, Instrumental, Lucrative, Salubrious, Salutary, Serviceable, Useful), بااستفاده . (various references)

Finnish		terveellinen (healthful, healthy, salutary, wholesome), hyväätekevä. (various references)

French		bon, salutaire, favorable, avantageux. (various references)

German		segensreich (benedictive, beneficent), nützlich (advantageous, advantagious, expedient, helpful, practical, profitable, profitably, salutary, serviceably, useful, valuable), heilsam (curative, healing, healthful, healthfully, medicative, salutary). (various references)

Greek		ευεργετικόσ (benefactory, salutary). (various references)

Hebrew		מועיל (advantageous, helpful, instrumental, salutary, useful), מטיב (benefactor), תועלתי (advantageous, expedient, practicable, useful). (various references)

Hungarian		jótékony hatású, jótékony (beneficent, benevolent, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, have a big heart, philanthropical, well doing), hasznos (advantageous, be of service, conducive, effective, expedient, helpful, instrumental, profitable, remunerative, salutary, serviceable, subservient, to stand in good stead, useful), fizetéssel járó, elõnyös (advantageous), előnyös (advantageous, becoming, fat, favorable, favourable, profitable, prosperous, remunerative). (various references)

Indonesian		berfaedah (advantageous, useful). (various references)

Italian		benefico (beneficent, benevolent, bounteous, digestible), salutare (greet, greet each other, hail, healthy, salutary, salute, say goodbye to, wave off, welcome), che reca giovamento, che gode i frutti di una propriet� , che fa bene. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		有益 (profitable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ゆうえき (profitable). (various references)

Korean		� 리한 (Advantageous, lucrative, Profitable). (various references)

Manx		vondeishagh (advantageous, expedient, gainful, lucrative, profitable, utilitarian), foayssagh (beneficent, remedial). (various references)

Pig Latin		eneficialbay

Portuguese		benéfico (charitable, good, profit, profitable, serviceable), vantajoso (advantageous, expedite, gainings, profit, profitable, purposive, serviceable, useful), salutar (salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, sanitary, wholesome), proveitoso (helpful, profit, profitable, useful). (various references)

Romanian		bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), binefãcãtor (benefactor, beneficent, beneficient, bracing, salutary, well doer, wholesome), folositor (advantageous, effective, expedient, gainful, helpful, instrumental, of use, profitable, purposeful, salutary, serviceable, sound, subservient, suitable, useful, wholesome). (various references)

Russian		целительный (curative, healing, salutary, vulnerary), благотворный (beneficent, benign, benignant, salutary). (various references)

Scottish		buannachdail (profitable), tairbheartach (profitable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		blagotvoran (beneficent, demulcent, gracious, kindly, sanatory), delotvoran (effective). (various references)

Spanish		beneficioso (profitable). (various references)

Swedish		välgörenhet (benefaction, beneficence, charity), välgörande (beneficent, benignant, salutary). (various references)

Thai		เป็นประโยชน์ (avail). (various references)

Turkish		yararlı (advantageous, benign, benignant, efficacious, good, handy, healthful, healthy, helpful, of use, profitable, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, subservient, useful, wholesome), mülkten yararlanma hakkıyla ilgili, kazançlı (fat, fruitful, gainful, lucrative, paying, productive, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, yielding), kârlı (advantageous, commercial, fat, gainful, juicy, lucrative, payable, paying, productive, profitable, profit-bringing, rewarding), hayırlı (auspicious, beneficent, fortunate, good, propitious), faydalı (advantageous, benignant, favorable, favourable, helpful, of use, profitable, rewarding, salutary, serviceable, useful, utilitarian, utility, valuable). (various references)

Turkmen		haяyrly (helpful). (various references)

Ukranian		цілющий (balmy, curative, healing, healthful, medicative, recuperative, salubrious, sanative, sanatory), корисний (adjuvant, advantageous, available, conducive, effective, gainful, helpful, of avail, practicable, profitable, rewarding, serviceable, useful, valuable, wholesome), вигідний (advantageous, expedient, lucrative, moneymaking, paying, plummy). (various references)

Welsh		buddiol (advisable, profitable, useful), llesol (advantageous, profitable), daionus (beneficent, benevolent, good). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	profuturus, salutare, salutari, salutaria, salutaribus, salutaris, salutarium, utilis. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	salutaire. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beneficial": beneficially, beneficialness, beneficialnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beneficial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benedicam, benefical, beneficiality, beneficiar, beneficiis, benefitial, benficial, benificial, deneficial, ebenficial. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beneficial" (pronounced be'nufi"shul)
7	-n u f i" sh u l	unofficial.
6	-u f i" sh u l	artificial, official, sacrificial.
5	-f i" sh u l	superficial.
4	-i" sh u l	initial, judicial.
3	-sh u l	antisocial, biracial, bushel, commercial, confidential, controversial, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, interprovincial, interracial, jurisprudential, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, palatial, partial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, social, spatial, special, uncontroversial.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-i-l-n"
	-2 letters: fencible, fineable.
	-3 letters: albinic, benefic, faience, fiancee, finable, finical.
	-4 letters: bailee, bailie, baleen, beanie, beflea, belief, biface, enable, enface, enlace, facile, fecial, feline, fiance, finale, finial, inlace.
	-5 letters: abele, acini, alibi, alien, aline, anele, anile, belie, biali, binal, blain, blini, cabin, cable, calif, ceiba, celeb, cilia, clean, cline, elain, elfin, fable, fecal, fence, ficin.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-i-l-n"
	+2 letters: beneficially.
	+3 letters: unspecifiable.
	+4 letters: beneficialness, enforceability.
	+5 letters: ineffaceability.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6E 65 66 69 63 69 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#102 &#105 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006E 0065 0066 0069 0063 0069 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
beneficial insect	2,320	beneficial finance household	6
beneficial	657	beneficial insect predators	5
beneficial finance	198	beneficial loan company	5
bank beneficial savings	117	beneficial financial services	5
bank beneficial	57	beneficial corporation	5
beneficial loan	52	beneficial loan personal	5
beneficial financial	43	bank beneficial saving	5
beneficial nematodes	37	bank beneficial national usa	5
beneficial mortgage	34	home beneficial life insurance	5
beneficial savings	21	beneficial com	5
bank beneficial national	16	beneficial bug	4
beneficial hfc	15	beneficial credit	4
beneficial life	13	beneficial california	4
beneficial household	13	beneficial savings.com	3
beneficial bacterium	11	beneficial finance co	3
beneficial finance company	10	beneficial california inc	3
home beneficial life insurance company	7	beneficial home loan	3
beneficial life insurance	7	beneficial finance.com	3
beneficial mortgage company	6	beneficial health plan	3
beneficial credit services	6	beneficial corp finance	3
		beneficial financing	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beneficial

Definitions: Beneficial

Beneficial

Adjective

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Beneficial

Synonyms: Beneficial

Synonyms within Context: Beneficial

Good

Inexpedience

Property

Crosswords: Beneficial

Modern Usage: Beneficial

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Beneficial

Books

Image Slideshow: Beneficial

Illustrations:Beneficial

Photo Album: Beneficial

Familiar Quotations: Beneficial

Charles M. Schultz

John Kenneth Galbraith

Thomas Carlyle

Historic Usage: Beneficial

John Locke

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: Beneficial

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Beneficial

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Beneficial

John Adams

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Harry S. Truman

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Beneficial

Expressions: Beneficial

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beneficial

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Illustrations:
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