Beneficial vs Fruitful - What's the difference?
beneficial | fruitful |
Helpful or good to something or someone.
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, title= Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.
Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
As adjectives the difference between beneficial and fruitful
is that beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone while fruitful is favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; fertile; not barren.beneficial
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Adjective
(en adjective)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
*Antonyms
* detrimental * harmful * unfavourableDerived terms
* beneficial ownerfruitful
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Alternative forms
* fruitfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all - I got promoted