Word Meanings - BENEVOLENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. Etymologically considered, benevolent implies wishing well to others, and beneficent, doing well. But by degrees the word benevolent has been widened to include not only feelings, but actions; thus, we speak of benevolent operations, benevolent labors for the public good, benevolent societies. In like manner, beneficent is now often applied to feelings; thus, we speak of the beneficent intentions of a donor. This extension of the terms enables us to mark nicer shades of meaning. Thus, the phrase "benevolent labors" turns attention to the source of these labors, viz., benevolent feeling; while beneficent would simply mark them as productive of good. So, "beneficent intentions" point to the feelings of the donor as bent upon some specific good act; while "benevolent intentions" would only denote a general wish and design to do good. (more info) bonus good) + volens, p. pr. of volo I will, I wish. See Bounty, and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENEVOLENT)

• Amiable
• Lovable
• good
• kind
• benevolent
• charitable
• delectable
• engaging
• fascinating
• agreeable
• lovely
• pleading
• charming
• attractive
• Beneficent
• Bountiful
• benignant
• Charitable
• Kind
• benign
• beneficent
• liberal
• considerate
• forgiving
• compassionate
• placable
• inexacting
• inextreme
• Good \adj Right
• complete
• sound
• pious
• propitious
• serviceable
• suitable
• efficient
• sufficient
• competent
• valid
• real
• actual
• considerable
• honorable
• reputable
• righteous
• proper
• true
• upright
• just
• excellent
• Humane
• Benign
• tender
• merciful

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BENEVOLENT)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to BENEVOLENT)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• 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.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• AMIABLENESS
  The quality of being amiable; amiability.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• 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.
• BOUNTIFUL
  1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv.
• CHARITABLENESS
  The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.