Definition of beneficial

"beneficial" in the adjective sense

1. beneficial, good

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"

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Quotations for beneficial

As adversity lends us to think properly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. [ Johnson ]

The dew of heaven is often as beneficial as rain; it is one of those dispensations of a wise and gracious Providence. [ Sturm ]

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. [ Carlyle ]

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]

Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops. [ John Ruskin ]

beneficial in Scrabble®

The word beneficial is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters beneficial:

BENEFICIAL
(180)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

albinic, fiancee

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word beneficial

BENEFICIAL
(180)
BENEFICIAL
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In beneficial

BENEFICIAL
(180)
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FIANCEE
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BENEFICIAL
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beneficial in Words With Friends™

The word beneficial is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 21

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters beneficial:

BENEFICIAL
(333)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

albinic, fiancee

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word beneficial

BENEFICIAL
(333)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In beneficial

BENEFICIAL
(333)
BENEFICIAL
(225)
BENEFICIAL
(174)
BENEFICIAL
(138)
ALBINIC
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Words within the letters of beneficial

2 letter words in beneficial (11 words)

6 letter words in beneficial (8 words)

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10 letter words in beneficial (1 word)

beneficial + 2 blanks (1 word)

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Words that start with beneficial (3 words)

Words with beneficial in them (1 word)

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