Ultimately, space flight will be beneficial to all mankind.
Source: tatoeba (19550)
Beneficial
//ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl//
Synonyms for "beneficial" (105 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (52)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 39 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὠφέλιμος adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Arabic
1 entries- مُفِيد adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Armenian
2 entries- շահեկան adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- օգտակար adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Asturian
2 entries- beneficiosu adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- benéficu adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- faydalı adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- xeyirli adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Belarusian
3 entries- выго́дны adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- дабратво́рны adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- кары́сны adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Bulgarian
2 entries- благотво́рен adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- поле́зен adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Catalan
1 entries- beneficiós adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 有利的 adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- 有益的 adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Czech
1 entries- prospěšný adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Danish
1 entries- gavnlig adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Dutch
1 entries- gunstig adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Finnish
4 entries- hyvästä adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- hyödyllinen adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- suotuisa adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- tervetullut adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
French
3 entries- bienfaisante adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- bénéficial adj (relating to a benefice)
- bénéfique adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Galician
2 entries- beneficioso adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- benéfico adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
German
2 entries- nützlich adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- vorteilhaft adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Greek
2 entries- επωφελής adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- ωφέλιμος adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Hebrew
2 entries- מועיל adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- מיטיב adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Hindi
2 entries- लाभदायक adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- हितकारी adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Italian
1 entries- benefico adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Japanese
1 entries- 有益な adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Korean
2 entries- 유익하다 adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- 이롭다 adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Macedonian
1 entries- добротворен adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Middle English
1 entries- spedful adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Māori
2 entries- whaihua adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- whaioranga adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- sûdbexş adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fordelaktig adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fordelaktig adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Persian
2 entries- سودمند adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- مفید adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- nutzboa adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Polish
1 entries- korzystny adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Portuguese
1 entries- benéfico adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Russian
2 entries- благотво́рный adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- поле́зный adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- blagotvoran adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- koristan adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- благотворан adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- користан adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Slovak
1 entries- prospešný adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Slovene
2 entries- dobrodejen adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- koristen adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Spanish
1 entries- beneficioso adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Swedish
2 entries- fördelaktig adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- gynnsam adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Ukrainian
3 entries- благотво́рний adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- ви́гідний adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
- кори́сний adj (helpful or good to something or someone)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Regular exercise is beneficial to good health.
Source: tatoeba (20214)
Worms are sometimes beneficial to soil.
Source: tatoeba (32234)
Properly used, certain poisons will prove beneficial.
Source: tatoeba (271587)
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