How do you pronounce beneficial?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/.

beneficial

/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.08 in modern English

Syllables: ben-e-fi-cial
IPA: /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

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Meaning

adj

Helpful or good to something or someone.

adj

Receiving a benefit from something.

adj

Relating to a benefice.

noun

Something that provides a benefit.

Example Sentences

"Recycling and reusing garbage can be beneficial to the environment."
"Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism."
"Yes, there are microbes everywhere and most are just fine for us, perhaps even beneficial to our microbiomes and immune systems. We don’t care about those."
"the beneficial owner of a company"
"Daytime temperatures may be too hot for just-released beneficials, and birds and other predators are out in full force during the day."

Etymology

From Late Latin beneficiālis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *dʰeh₁-, beneficiālis, beneficium

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
British English: /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/

Inflected Forms

more beneficial (comparative) most beneficial (superlative) benefitial (alternative, misspelling) beneficials (plural)

Derived Forms

beneficiality beneficially beneficialness cardiobeneficial nonbeneficial renobeneficial unbeneficial

Phrases

beneficial insect beneficial owner

Synonyms

advantageous behooveful helpful useful positive usufructuary usufructuous good

Antonyms

detrimental maleficial nocuous damaging harmful innocuous undamaging harmless

Rhymes With

official initial artificial judicial unofficial superficial sacrificial interstitial prejudicial fishel mischel rishel