most beneficial

ADJECTIVE

advantageous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

benign constructive favorable good helpful profitable useful valuable

WEAK

favoring gainful good for what ails you healthful propitious salubrious salutary serviceable toward what the doctor ordered wholesome worthy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hurtful hurting injurious unhelpful useless worthless

WEAK

unfortunate unrewarding

Example Sentences

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Students know what to expect from each course and which materials are most beneficial to study to do well on their assignments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

The team plans to further explore which types of physical activity are most beneficial, including how intensity and long-term exercise patterns might influence brain health.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

Although the fluoridation of public water that he opposes can benefit everyone, it’s consistently found to be most beneficial to people with low incomes or who live in rural areas.

From Slate • Jul. 15, 2025

So I think being able to turn the page as quickly as possible and get back to my approach is going to be the most beneficial thing for me.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2024

These visits were repeated many times, and with the most beneficial effects on the mind of the culprit.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard