Benevolent
adjective
Being kind and generous to other people.
She is a benevolent old lady who always helps her neighbors.
Often appears as...
- benevolent smile
- benevolent nature
adjective
Doing good things for other people or helping them to do or get something.
The benevolent fund has enabled many children to get good education.
Often appears as...
- benevolent fund
- benevolent intervention
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Involving the act of giving money or help to people who are in need.
He is a benevolent donor who has supported many charity projects in our community.
Often appears as...
- benevolent gift
- benevolent contribution
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
adjective
Being kind and generous to other people.
She is a benevolent old lady who always helps her neighbors.
Often appears as...
- benevolent smile
- benevolent nature
adjective
Doing good things for other people or helping them to do or get something.
The benevolent fund has enabled many children to get good education.
Often appears as...
- benevolent fund
- benevolent intervention
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Involving the act of giving money or help to people who are in need.
He is a benevolent donor who has supported many charity projects in our community.
Often appears as...
- benevolent gift
- benevolent contribution
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Kindness
Describes a personal quality, often seen in daily interactions with individuals.
The benevolent shopkeeper always greets customers with a warm smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Material
Can refer to acts of kindness that aren't about giving money or goods, such as offering advice.
His benevolent guidance helped her overcome the challenges.
Pro Tip 3/3Genuine Motive
Implies a sincere intention to help, without expecting anything in return.
Her benevolent offer to organize the event was deeply appreciated.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Kindness
Describes a personal quality, often seen in daily interactions with individuals.
The benevolent shopkeeper always greets customers with a warm smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Material
Can refer to acts of kindness that aren't about giving money or goods, such as offering advice.
His benevolent guidance helped her overcome the challenges.
Pro Tip 3/3Genuine Motive
Implies a sincere intention to help, without expecting anything in return.
Her benevolent offer to organize the event was deeply appreciated.
Pro Tip 1/3Personal Kindness
Describes a personal quality, often seen in daily interactions with individuals.
The benevolent shopkeeper always greets customers with a warm smile.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Material
Can refer to acts of kindness that aren't about giving money or goods, such as offering advice.
His benevolent guidance helped her overcome the challenges.
Pro Tip 3/3Genuine Motive
Implies a sincere intention to help, without expecting anything in return.
Her benevolent offer to organize the event was deeply appreciated.
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Video examples
Maya "Underworld"...
these caves according to their beliefs wouldn't all have been benevolent so you would be approaching these spaces where you could upset deities you could upset ancestors you're you're putting your life at risk by going into these places not just because of the the Heights and because of the tight spaces
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The great conspiracy...
But Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" described him as one of the most virtuous and benevolent people to have lived. The interpretation of Brutus as either a selfless fighter against dictatorship or an opportunistic traitor has shifted with the tides of history and politics.
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Why elephants never...
and benevolent creatures on Earth. Unlike many proverbs, the one about elephant memory is scientifically accurate. Elephants know every member in their herd, able to recognize as many as 30 companions by sight or smell. This is a great help when migrating
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Jimmy Wales: How a...
the point is my role in the community -- Within the free software world, there's been a long-standing tradition of the "benevolent dictator" model. So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single person in charge
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Should we be looking for...
That life could be benevolent, as we would hope to be if humans are one day able to achieve interstellar travel. Or it could be hostile. Searching for planets that might have life means staring into a great abyss.
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A healthy economy should...
made earth such a benevolent home to humanity. So this double-sided challenge to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet, it invites a new shape of progress, no longer this ever-rising line of growth,
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Safari Live - Day 134 PIPE...
snake that lived in a hole in the ground and this great snake was a banana it was a god actually more than anything else it was a bit benevolent God it possessed great wisdom and great healing powers
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Can we choose to fall...
and all those complicated feelings that you amass after long-term love. But it felt like the benevolent feelings had risen to the surface, and the feelings of fixation and the less-generous feelings
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How fire shapes...
benevolent presence in a kind of pristine nature and a year later fire is a malevolent presence in a built landscape what's missing in all of these what's missing is some image or
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The Dangers of the Sun PIPE...
almost all life depends on the energy that the Sun sends our way but the Sun is a far from benevolent companion because it's radiant rain can be as dangerous as it is nourishing
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Maya "Underworld"...
these caves according to their beliefs wouldn't all have been benevolent so you would be approaching these spaces where you could upset deities you could upset ancestors you're you're putting your life at risk by going into these places not just because of the the Heights and because of the tight spaces
Video examples
The great conspiracy...
But Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" described him as one of the most virtuous and benevolent people to have lived. The interpretation of Brutus as either a selfless fighter against dictatorship or an opportunistic traitor has shifted with the tides of history and politics.
Video examples
Why elephants never...
and benevolent creatures on Earth. Unlike many proverbs, the one about elephant memory is scientifically accurate. Elephants know every member in their herd, able to recognize as many as 30 companions by sight or smell. This is a great help when migrating
Video examples
Jimmy Wales: How a...
the point is my role in the community -- Within the free software world, there's been a long-standing tradition of the "benevolent dictator" model. So if you look at most of the major free software projects, they have one single person in charge
Video examples
Should we be looking for...
That life could be benevolent, as we would hope to be if humans are one day able to achieve interstellar travel. Or it could be hostile. Searching for planets that might have life means staring into a great abyss.
Video examples
A healthy economy should...
made earth such a benevolent home to humanity. So this double-sided challenge to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet, it invites a new shape of progress, no longer this ever-rising line of growth,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 134 PIPE...
snake that lived in a hole in the ground and this great snake was a banana it was a god actually more than anything else it was a bit benevolent God it possessed great wisdom and great healing powers
Video examples
Can we choose to fall...
and all those complicated feelings that you amass after long-term love. But it felt like the benevolent feelings had risen to the surface, and the feelings of fixation and the less-generous feelings
Video examples
How fire shapes...
benevolent presence in a kind of pristine nature and a year later fire is a malevolent presence in a built landscape what's missing in all of these what's missing is some image or
Video examples
The Dangers of the Sun PIPE...
almost all life depends on the energy that the Sun sends our way but the Sun is a far from benevolent companion because it's radiant rain can be as dangerous as it is nourishing
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Quote examples
Sarah MacLean
American Author
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.
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Mike Medavoy
American Producer
It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.
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Srikumar Rao
Indian Educator
Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.
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Patrick Marber
English Writer
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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Misha Collins
American Actor
I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Author
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.
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Adam Smith
Scottish Economist
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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Reid Hoffman
American Businessman
So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?
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William Dean Howells
American Author
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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Sarah MacLean
American Author
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.
Quote examples
Mike Medavoy
American Producer
It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.
Quote examples
Srikumar Rao
Indian Educator
Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.
Quote examples
Patrick Marber
English Writer
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
Quote examples
Misha Collins
American Actor
I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.
Quote examples
Kazuo Ishiguro
Japanese Author
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.
Quote examples
Adam Smith
Scottish Economist
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Quote examples
Thomas Jefferson
American President
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Quote examples
Reid Hoffman
American Businessman
So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?
Quote examples
William Dean Howells
American Author
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
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