Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beneficient

/ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ben-e-fi-cient
IPA: /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"1929, Time, 25 March, 1929, "Apple Salt," https://web.archive.org/web/20130721133038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846362,00.html Last week. Dr. John Christian Krantz Jr., chemist and pharmacist at Johns Hopkins, announced that that laboratory of many a beneficient drug had created a salt substitute, which has proved palatable during a year's tests."
"1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Writers in Politics: Essays, London: Heinemann, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 47, And not the least, they smashed the racialist view of peasants as uncultured recipients of cultures from beneficient foreigners."

Etymology

Modification of beneficent after beneficial.

Inflected Forms

more beneficient (comparative) most beneficient (superlative)

Rhymes With

efficient cost-efficient sufficient self-sufficient insufficient inefficient coefficient deficient proficient omniscient immunodeficient haploinsufficient

Questions

How do you pronounce beneficient?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/.
What does beneficient mean?: beneficent
Where does beneficient come from?: Modification of beneficent after beneficial.

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