different between worthwhile vs beneficial

worthwhile

English

Alternative forms

  • worth while
  • worthwile (archaic)

Etymology

worth +? while

Pronunciation

  • (UK, in accents with the wine-whine merger) IPA(key): /w??(?)??wa?l/
  • (UK, in accents without the merger) IPA(key): /w??(?)???a?l/

Adjective

worthwhile (comparative more worthwhile, superlative most worthwhile)

  1. Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.

Synonyms

  • worth it

Related terms

  • worth one’s while

Translations

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beneficial

English

Etymology

From Late Latin benefici?lis (beneficial), from Latin beneficium (benefit, favor, kindness).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: b?n?f?sh'?l, IPA(key): /?b?n??f???l/

Adjective

beneficial (comparative more beneficial, superlative most beneficial)

  1. Helpful or good to something or someone.
  2. Relating to a benefice.

Synonyms

  • (helpful or good): advantageous, behooveful (archaic), helpful, useful
  • (relating to a benefice): usufructuary, usufructuous

Antonyms

  • maleficial, nocuous, damaging, harmful (doing harm to someone)
  • innocuous, undamaging, harmless (doing no harm; doing neither harm nor good)

Derived terms

  • beneficialness
  • beneficial owner

Translations

Noun

beneficial (plural beneficials)

  1. Something that is beneficial.

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  • what beneficial means
  • what beneficial insects eat whiteflies
  • what beneficial bacteria are in sauerkraut
  • what beneficial mooc to an individual
  • what beneficial insects eat aphids
  • what's beneficial
  • helpful or beneficial
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