beneficial

/,beni'fiʃəl/

Thân thiện

A balanced diet is beneficial for your health.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Promoting or enhancing well-being: "Beneficial" describes something that has a positive effect, contributes to improvement, or is advantageous to someone or something's health, happiness, or situation.
   • Producing good results; helpful: It indicates that something yields favorable outcomes or provides assistance.

Usage and Examples

• General Use: Used to describe things, actions, or conditions that are advantageous.
  • Regular exercise is beneficial for both physical and mental health.
  • A balanced diet has beneficial effects on your energy levels.
• Specific Contexts: Often used in formal, academic, or professional writing to discuss positive impacts.
  • The new policy is beneficial to small business owners.
  • This symbiotic relationship is beneficial to both species.

Advanced Usage

• "To be beneficial to/for someone/something": A common prepositional structure.
  • Learning a second language is beneficial for cognitive development.
  • The tax reform will be beneficial to middle-class families.

Variants and Related Words

• Beneficially (adverb): In a beneficial manner.
  • The medicine acted beneficially on the patient's condition.
• Beneficiary (noun): A person who derives advantage from something.
  • She was the primary beneficiary of his will.

Synonyms

• Advantageous: Offering benefits or promoting success.
• Helpful: Providing help or assistance.
• Favorable: Advantageous; conducive to a good outcome.
• Salutary: Producing a beneficial effect; promoting health.

Antonyms

• Harmful: Causing or likely to cause harm.
• Detrimental: Tending to cause harm.
• Disadvantageous: Involving or creating unfavorable conditions.

Related Phrases and Collocations

• Mutually beneficial: Advantageous to all parties involved.
  • They entered into a mutually beneficial partnership.
• Beneficial ownership: The right to enjoy the benefits of ownership of a property, even if it is titled in another's name. (A legal/financial term)
  • The investigation focused on uncovering the beneficial owner of the assets.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. promoting or enhancing well-being
   • an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries
   • the beneficial effects of a temperate climate
   • the experience was good for her

Từ đồng nghĩa

• good