Beneficial vs Instrumental - What's the difference?
beneficial | instrumental |
Helpful or good to something or someone.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.
* (rfdate), (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), I,ii
(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
* (rfdate) (John Dryden)
* Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds.
(grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by'' or ''with with the objective.
(uncountable, grammar) The instrumental case.
(countable, music) A composition without lyrics.
* 1977 , Stereo Review (volume 38, page 70)
As adjectives the difference between beneficial and instrumental
is that beneficial is helpful or good to something or someone while instrumental is acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.As a noun instrumental is
the instrumental case.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.}}
Synonyms
*Antonyms
* detrimental * harmful * unfavourableDerived terms
* beneficial ownerinstrumental
English
(wikipedia instrumental)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was instrumental in conducting the business.
- The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth —
- instrumental music
- He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship.
- the instrumental case
Coordinate terms
* (serving as a means) final * (music) vocal, a capellaAntonyms
* noninstrumentalDerived terms
* instrumental error * instrumentation * instrumentality * instrumentiveNoun
- I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent