See beneficial in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms
beneficial profitable advantageous
These adjectives apply to what promotes a favorable result or gain. Beneficial is said of what enhances well-being: a trade agreement beneficial to all countries.
Profitable refers to what yields material gain or useful compensation: profitable speculation on the stock market.
Something advantageous affords improvement in relative position or in chances of success: found it socially advantageous to entertain often and well.
See beneficial in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Affording benefit:
advantageous, benefic, beneficent, benignant, favorable, good, helpful, profitable, propitious, salutary, toward, useful. See help
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