most beneficial

ADJECTIVE

advantageous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

benign constructive favorable good helpful profitable useful valuable

WEAK

favoring gainful good for what ails you healthful propitious salubrious salutary serviceable toward what the doctor ordered wholesome worthy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hurtful hurting injurious unhelpful useless worthless

WEAK

unfortunate unrewarding

Example Sentences

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Students know what to expect from each course and which materials are most beneficial to study to do well on their assignments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Although the fluoridation of public water that he opposes can benefit everyone, it’s consistently found to be most beneficial to people with low incomes or who live in rural areas.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2025

“I just feel that kind of mindset overall is most beneficial for the player, the team. So I don’t think that the win-loss, the standings, will have any deciding factor on who I use today.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

"Further research is required to pinpoint the specific cognitively challenging occupational tasks that are most beneficial for maintaining thinking and memory skills."

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

In my own experience chicken-water has proved to be the most universally acceptable, as well as the most beneficial, of all the various forms of nutriment to be chosen as a first venture.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various