beneficent
adjective
[ bɪˈnɛfɪs(ə)nt ]
• (of a person) generous or doing good.
• "a beneficent landowner"
Similar:
benevolent,
charitable,
altruistic,
humane,
humanitarian,
neighbourly,
public-spirited,
philanthropic,
generous,
magnanimous,
munificent,
unselfish,
ungrudging,
unstinting,
open-handed,
free-handed,
free,
liberal,
lavish,
bountiful,
benign,
indulgent,
kind,
bounteous,
benignant,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin beneficent- (stem of beneficentior, comparative of beneficus ‘favourable, generous’), from bene facere ‘do good (to)’.
