Word Meanings - BENIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

bénigne, fr. L. benignus, contr. from benigenus; bonus good + root of 1. Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant. Creator bounteous and benign. Milton. 2. Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor,

Additional info about word: BENIGN

bénigne, fr. L. benignus, contr. from benigenus; bonus good + root of 1. Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant. Creator bounteous and benign. Milton. 2. Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome. Kind influences and benign aspects. South. 3. Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease. Syn. -- Kind; propitious; bland; genial; salubrious; favorable salutary; gracious; liberal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENIGN)

• Bland
• Soft
• mild
• gentle
• complaisant
• courteous
• affable
• gracious
• tender
• benign
• Charitable
• Kind
• benevolent
• beneficent
• liberal
• considerate
• forgiving
• compassionate
• placable
• inexacting
• inextreme
• Humane
• Benign
• kind
• merciful
• Benevolent
• indulgent
• humane
• clement
• lenient
• good
• forbearing
• kind-hearted
• Propitious
• Timely
• favorable
• auspicious
• beneficial
• friendly
• welldisposed
• fortunate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BENIGN)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to BENIGN)

• 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
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• BLANDLY
  In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
• BLANDNESS
  The state or quality of being bland.
• 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.
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• 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.
• LENIENTLY
  In a lenient manner.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• 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.