Extra vs Beneficial - What's the difference?
extra | beneficial | Related terms |
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
(dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
(informal) To an extraordinary degree.
(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
Helpful or good to something or someone.
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Extra is a related term of beneficial.
As adjectives the difference between extra and beneficial
is that extra is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary while beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone.As an adverb extra
is (informal) to an extraordinary degree.As a noun extra
is (cricket) a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in australia referred to as a sundry.extra
English
Adjective
(-)- extra''' work; '''extra pay
Derived terms
* extranessAdverb
(-)- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
(en noun)- extra''', '''extra , read all about it!
Derived terms
* wuxtryDerived terms
* extra credit English degree adverbs ----beneficial
English
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.}}
