Dictionary Definition
benevolent adj
1 doing or producing good [syn: beneficent, gracious]
2 intending or showing kindness; "a benevolent
society"
3 having or showing or arising from a desire to
promote the welfare or happiness of others; "his benevolent smile";
"a benevolent nature" [syn: good] [ant: malevolent]
4 generous in providing aid to others [syn:
freehearted]
5 generous in assistance to the poor; "a
benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic
contributions" [syn: beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Having a disposition to do good.
- Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
- altruistic or charitable.
Translations
Having a disposition to do good
- Kurdish:
Possessing or manifesting love for mankind
altruistic or charitable
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accommodating, advantageous, affable, agreeable, almsgiving, altruistic, amiable, amicable, auspicious, beneficent, beneficial, benign, benignant, big, bighearted, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, caring, charitable, chivalrous, cogent, commendable, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, conciliatory, considerate, cooperative, decent, eleemosynary, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, forbearing, forgiving, freehearted, friendly, generous, good, goodly, gracious, grand, greathearted, healthy, helpful, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, laudable, liberal, lofty, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, neighborly, nice, noble, obliging, open-handed, openhanded, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, permissive, philanthropic, placable, pleasant, profitable, propitious, public-spirited,
regal, royal, salutary, skillful, sound, sparing, splendid, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, unresentful, unrevengeful, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, warm-hearted,
welfare, welfare
statist, welfarist,
well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning,
well-meant