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Main Entry:
beneficial [ben-uh-fish-uhl]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: advantageous
Synonyms: benign, constructive, favorable, favoring, gainful, good, good for what ails you, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, what the doctor ordered, wholesome, worthy
Antonyms: disadvantageous, harmful, hurting, unfortunate, unhelpful, unrewarding
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: propitious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: full of promise; good, favorable
Synonyms: advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, brave, bright, dexter, encouraging, favoring, fortunate, happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, pat, promising, prosperous, rosy, seasonable, timely, toward, useful, well-timed
Notes: auspicious implies success in the future while propitious means favorable conditions are present; auspicious means promising or of good omen - not just special or memorable
Antonyms: inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising
Main Entry: useful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beneficial, valuable
Synonyms: advantageous, all-purpose, applied, appropriate, brave, commodious, convenient, effective, favorable, fit, fruitful, functional, good, handy, helpful, instrumental, meet, of assistance, of service, of use, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, proper, propitious, purposive, salutary, serviceable, subsidiary, suitable, suited, toward, utile
Notes: usable or useable means that something can be used; useful means that something is helpful or beneficial and can be used to advantage
Antonyms: unusable, unvaluable, useless, worthless
Main Entry: onto
Part of Speech: adjective/preposition
Definition: to
Synonyms: adjacent, against, in contact with, toward
Notes: onto is used where two elements function as a compound preposition and 'on to' is used when on is an adverb; onto is when you mean 'on top of, aware of' - otherwise, use 'on to'
Concept Thesaurus
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.
-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.
Antonyms: evil
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