Word Meanings - BENEFICENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENEFICENT)

• Charitable
• Kind
• benign
• benevolent
• beneficent
• liberal
• considerate
• forgiving
• compassionate
• placable
• inexacting
• inextreme
• Gracious
• Affable
• courteous
• benignant
• kind
• civil
• condescending
• merciful
• friendly
• tender
• gentle

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BENEFICENT)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to BENEFICENT)

• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• CHARITABLENESS
  The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• BENEVOLENT
  Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• MERCIFUL
  1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.