baneful | (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baleful |
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(adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: deadly, pernicious, pestilent |
banefully | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: perniciously |
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benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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benefaction | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benevolence |
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(noun) a contribution of money or assistance | - |
benefactor | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: helper |
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benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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benefic | (adjective) exerting a favorable or beneficent influence | - |
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benefice | (noun) an endowed church office giving income to its holder | Synonyms: ecclesiastical benefice |
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(verb) endow with a benefice | - |
beneficed | (adjective) having a benefice | - |
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beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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(noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
beneficent | (adjective) doing or producing good | - |
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(adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic |
beneficial | (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: good |
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beneficially | (adverb) in a beneficial manner | - |
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beneficiary | (adjective) having or arising from a benefice | - |
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(noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: benefactive role |
(noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits | Synonyms: donee |
beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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beneficiation | (noun) crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques | Synonyms: mineral dressing, mineral extraction, mineral processing, ore dressing, ore processing |
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benefit | (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: welfare |
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(noun) a performance to raise money for a charitable cause | - |
(noun) financial assistance in time of need | - |
(verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
(verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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coneflower | (noun) any of various perennials of the eastern United States having thick rough leaves and long-stalked showy flowers with drooping rays and a conelike center | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones | - |
(noun) a wildflower of the genus Ratibida | - |
ganef | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganof, gonif, goniff |
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ineffable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, indescribable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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(adjective) too sacred to be uttered | Synonyms: unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable |
ineffably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, inexpressibly, unspeakably, unutterably |
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ineffaceability | (noun) The quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. | Synonyms: indelibility |
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ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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(adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
(adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
ineffectively | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: inefficaciously |
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ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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ineffectual | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, uneffective |
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(adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffective, unable |
(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, meaningless, otiose, unavailing |
ineffectuality | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectualness |
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ineffectually | (adverb) in an ineffectual manner | - |
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ineffectualness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectuality |
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inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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inefficaciously | (adverb) in an ineffective manner | Synonyms: ineffectively |
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inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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inefficient | (adjective) not producing desired results; wasteful | - |
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(adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: ineffective |
inefficiently | (adverb) in an inefficient manner | - |
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minefield | (noun) a region in which explosives mines have been placed | - |
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nefarious | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: villainous |
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nefariously | (adverb) in a nefarious manner or to a nefarious degree | - |
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nefariousness | (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: ugliness, vileness, wickedness |
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nefazodone | (noun) an antidepressant drug (trade name Serzone) | Synonyms: Serzone |
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ninefold | (adjective) having nine units or components | Synonyms: nine-fold, nonuple |
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(adverb) by a factor of nine | Synonyms: nine times |
noneffervescent | (adjective) not effervescent | - |
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(adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: still |
porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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stoneface | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, lithops, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant |
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stonefish | (noun) venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock | Synonyms: Synanceja verrucosa |
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stonefly | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: plecopteran, stone fly |
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tuneful | (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: melodious |
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tunefully | (adverb) in a melodious manner | Synonyms: melodiously |
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tunefulness | (noun) the property of having a melody | Synonyms: melodiousness |
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unbeneficed | (adjective) not having a benefice | - |
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uneffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, ineffectual |
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untuneful | (adjective) not having a musical sound or pleasing tune | Synonyms: tuneless, unmelodious |
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