Synonyms and Antonyms of benevolent
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having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others
- a benevolent willingness to provide veterinary services to low-income families at greatly reduced prices
beneficent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm
clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft
patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding
altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing
anticruelty, cruelty-free
ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking
grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental
hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent
antihumanitarian, uncharitable
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton
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having or showing a concern for the welfare of others
- a benevolent businessman who has donated money and time to helping inner-city youths
selfless, self-sacrificing
bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, generous, greathearted, handsome, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, unselfish, unsparing
compassionate, humane, kind, kindhearted
social-minded
self-indulgent, self-seeking
cheap, closefisted, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, stingy, tight, tightfisted
hard-hearted, pitiless, unfeeling
self-obsessed
