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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficent |
| Synonyms: | altruistic, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, big-hearted, charitable, favorable, generous, good, helpful, humanitarian, kind, propitious, useful |
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| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | useful, adequate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, advantageous, all right, ample, appropriate, approving, apt, auspicious, becoming, benefic, beneficial, benignant, brave, commendatory, commending, common, conformable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, favorable, favoring, fit, fitting, fruitful, healthful, healthy, helpful, hygienic, meet, needed, opportune, profitable, proper, propitious, respectable, right, salubrious, salutary, satisfying, seemly, serviceable, suitable, tolerable, toward, unobjectionable, wholesome |
| Notes: | using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well" well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | inadequate, rotten, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | benignant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, benefic, beneficent, benign, encouraging, favorable, good, healing, helpful, useful |
| Notes: | benign refers to a trait or characteristic; benignant to a tendency or disposition |
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| Concept: | Good. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest., boon (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure trove., good fortune (prosperity); happiness., [Source of good] goodness [more]; utility; remedy; pleasure giving.
-adjectives
-adverbs
well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the best; to one's advantage; in one's favor, in one's interest.
-phrases
so far so good; magnum bonum.
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| Antonyms: | evil |
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