beneficial

== English == === Etymology === From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”). === Pronunciation === enPR: bĕnəfĭsh'əl, IPA(key): /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃəl/ (Indic) IPA(key): /ˌbɛnəˌfiʃjəl/, /-ˌfɪʃjəl/ Rhymes: -ɪʃəl === Adjective === beneficial (comparative more beneficial, superlative most beneficial) Helpful or good to something or someone. Relating to a benefice. ==== Synonyms ==== (helpful or good): advantageous, behooveful (archaic), helpful, useful (relating to a benefice): usufructuary, usufructuous ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “doing harm to someone”): detrimental, maleficial, nocuous, damaging, harmful (antonym(s) of “doing neither good nor harm”): innocuous, undamaging, harmless ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === beneficial (plural beneficials) Something that provides a benefit. == Catalan == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin beneficiālis === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [bə.nə.fi.siˈal] IPA(key): (Valencia) [be.ne.fi.siˈal] === Adjective === beneficial m or f (masculine and feminine plural beneficials) (relational) of a benefice ==== Related terms ==== benefici beneficiar === Further reading === “beneficial”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007