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Beneficial vs First-rate - What's the difference?

beneficial | first-rate | Related terms |

Beneficial is a related term of first-rate.


As adjectives the difference between beneficial and first-rate

is that beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.

As a noun first-rate is

(military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.

beneficial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Helpful or good to something or someone.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial . It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}

    Synonyms

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    Antonyms

    * detrimental * harmful * unfavourable

    Derived terms

    * beneficial owner

    first-rate

    Noun

  • (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
  • Adjective

  • (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
  • (by extension) Exceptionally good.
  • * (Matthew Arnold)
  • Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

    See also

    * second-rate * third-rate * fourth-rate