beneficent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: be=nef=i=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

beneficent, a. 

 Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.  [1913 Webster]
"The beneficent fruits of Christianity."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- See Benevolent.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

beneficent, adj. doing good; generous, actively kind.

Derivative

beneficence n. beneficently adv.

Etymology

L beneficent- (as BENEFICE)

THESAURUS

beneficent

almsgiving, altruistic, amicable, benevolent, benign, benignant, bighearted, charitable, cooperative, eleemosynary, favorable, freehearted, friendly, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, neighborly, philanthropic, propitious, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

ROGET THESAURUS

beneficent

Benevolence

N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.