Beneficent

//bəˈnɛ.fə.sənt//

Synonyms for "beneficent" (44 found)

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Related word relations

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Translations

29 translations across 17 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἀγαθοποιός adj (Translations)

Arabic

3 entries
  • رَحِيم adj (Translations)
  • مُتَصَدِّق adj (Translations)
  • مُحْسِن adj (Translations)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • благодетелен adj (Translations)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 仁慈 adj (Translations)
  • 善行 adj (Translations)
  • 慈善 adj (Translations)

Finnish

1 entries
  • hyvää tekevä adj (Translations)

French

2 entries
  • bienfaisant adj (Translations)
  • miséricordieux adj (Translations)

German

2 entries
  • mildtätig adj (Translations)
  • wohltätig adj (Translations)

Greek

1 entries
  • αγαθοποιός adj (Translations)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 奇特な adj (Translations)
  • 情け深い adj (Translations)
  • 慈悲深い adj (Translations)

Latin

1 entries
  • beneficus adj (Translations)

Northern Altai

1 entries
  • пиийанныг adj (Translations)

Persian

2 entries
  • سودبخش adj (Translations)
  • نیکوکار adj (Translations)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • beneficente adj (Translations)

Romanian

1 entries
  • binefăcător adj (Translations)

Russian

2 entries
  • благоде́тельный adj (Translations)
  • ми́лостивый adj (Translations)

Spanish

3 entries
  • benefactor adj (Translations)
  • benéfico adj (Translations)
  • bienhechor adj (Translations)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • благотво́рний adj (Translations)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Source: tatoeba (906994)

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Source: tatoeba (1870686)

We have only the choice between unbearable truths and beneficent lies.

Source: tatoeba (6114746)

beneficent spirit

Source: wiktionary

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