Worthwhile vs Beneficial - What's the difference?
worthwhile | beneficial | Related terms |
Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
Helpful or good to something or someone.
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As adjectives the difference between worthwhile and beneficial
is that worthwhile is good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on while beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone.worthwhile
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Alternative forms
* worth whileAdjective
(en adjective)- Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile .
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.}}