beneficial
- s promoting or enhancing well-being
an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries
the beneficial effects of a temperate climate
beneficiary
- n the recipient of funds or other benefits
- n the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- a having or arising from a benefice
a beneficiary baron
benevolent
- a intending or showing kindness
a benevolent society - s showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
- s generous in providing aid to others
- s generous in assistance to the poor
a benevolent contributor
bengali
- n (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)
- n an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India
- n a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal
- a of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people
benighted
- v overtake with darkness or night
- v envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness
The benighted peoples of this area - v make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
- s overtaken by night or darkness
benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home - s lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
this benighted country
benighted ages of barbarism and superstition