Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: benevolent

Synonyms:

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Antonyms:

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Usage examples:

Angels are commonly depicted as benevolent and ethereal entities, though beliefs about their nature and roles can vary significantly among different cultures and religions.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/wordle-today-answer-and-hints-september-15-818/

But the monster’s benevolent personality convinced Van Helsing to team with him to end Dracula’s reign.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/best-enemies-to-friends-movies/

Carnegie, who took over his own reputation and decided he wanted to be remembered as a benevolent supplier of libraries when he had been one of the toughest robber barons of all of them.”

Source: https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-striking-pittsburgh-laborers-loom-over-season-2-of-hbos-the-gilded-age/

Fate favours the benevolent and so it was that a series of small miracles enabled the Sthalekars- father Haren and English-born mother Sue- to obtain a passport for the baby in a matter of days.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/from-shreevatsa-to-sydney-indian-born-australian-cricketer-lisa-sthalekars-journey-9032823/

For two decades, countries “were getting to know China as the kind of benevolent financier of big-ticket infrastructure,” said Bradley Parks, the executive director of the AidData research group at William & Mary.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/21/china-debt-diplomacy-belt-and-road-initiative-economy-infrastructure-development/

He’s the benevolent King of Krapopolis, attempting to create the first major city.

Source: https://screenrant.com/krapopolis-dan-harmon-release-date-trailer-cast-everything-we-know/

He Who Remains, a more benevolent version of Kang the Conqueror, established the TVA as a way to stop multiverses from colliding.

Source: https://screenrant.com/who-broke-mcu-multiverse-loki-doctor-strange-miles-morales/

“If you accept that we start with nothing and go back to nothing,” he says, “it’s amazing how all kinds of alternative ways of benevolent living open up.”

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23396409.accursed-share-exhibition-looks-really-counts/?ref=rss

In a about a Netflix documentary on the Sussexes, American writer Roxane Gay affirmed: “Monarchies are almost never benevolent, even if they have no political power.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/11/monarchy-republic-britain-democracy-us-india-colonialism/

No matter how well-meaning the politicians make these encroachments on our rights appear, in the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/07/no_author/mental-health-round-ups-the-next-phase-of-the-governments-war-on-thought-crimes/

’s characters are benevolent heroes who lean towards redemption over destruction, but that doesn’t mean Toriyama doesn’t dip his toe into violent content.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/most-violent-dragonball-dbz-fights/

Sightings have been reported throughout history, and a weird fact is that the more you travel up the state, the more benevolent residents are to the creature.

Source: http://njitvector.com/17182/features/the-nomadic-nightmares-of-newark/

That earlier, more benevolent idea of a generalized apology and possibility of forgiveness gives way to a sense of exposure and menace.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/ben-lerner-04-10-23

The Prime Superman, millennia old and with the power of a god, leads them as a benevolent patriarch.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/superman-dc-comics-team-leader/

The series only aims to get more ambitious in its upcoming season too, as series creator previously teased how more ex-agents will rise up to thwart the organization's benevolent mission by using their abilities to go back in time and stop them.

Source: https://collider.com/the-lazarus-project-series-release-date/

They they could pray that the powers that be would be benevolent enough to reduce the amount of those (already established) pesky fees, knowing full well it’s easier to take a pot roast from a grizzly bear than a revenue stream from a bureaucrat.

Source: https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/letters/letter-dont-complain-about-nevadas-high-vehicle-registration-fees-2930530/

Tom Luddy, the benevolent wizard/curator of the Telluride Film Festival, who, in the post-’60s glow of generational change in the film world, created safe space to get high (at altitude) for his people: film lovers.

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/02/tom-luddy-telluride-film-festival-1235265325/

What could be more benevolent — or divided?

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/music/feist-multitudes-review.html

“What happened to the Danes can happen anywhere, anytime,” he wrote, “especially if a society lets down its guard and fails to protect its liberty in the wishful belief that the world is populated largely by benign or benevolent people like themselves.”

Source: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/09/29/9-new-books-with-berkeley-links-to-read-this-fall

When we're confident that the cosmos is benevolent, and that it's got our best interests at heart, it responds by affording us a kind of natural protection.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12505083/Horoscope-today-Daily-guide-stars-store-September-13-2023.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490