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enevolence
n. 1 charity, kindness, kindliness, humanity, humanitarianism,
beneficence, charitableness, goodness, altruism, good will,
unselfishness, philanthropy, generosity, magnanimity: The poor
people in the village used to rely on his benevolence. 2 gift,
grant, contribution, donation, beneficence: The victims of the
famine were recipients of the benevolence of the British people.
benevolent
adj. charitable, well-disposed, gracious, good, kind, kindly,
humane, humanitarian, well-wishing, thoughtful, considerate,
sympathetic, caring, kind-hearted, warm-hearted, compassionate,
benign, benignant; liberal, generous, magnanimous, open-handed;
beneficial, helpful, salutary: That hypocrite has cast himself
in the role of a benevolent despot.
benighted adj. unenlightened, na‹ve, uninformed, ignorant: That poor,
benighted fool believes that the doctors can cure him.
benign adj. 1 kindly, gracious, good, kind, kind-hearted, benevolent,
benignant, warm, warm-hearted, cordial, genial, congenial,
tender, tender-hearted, compassionate, sympathetic,
soft-hearted: It was Grandad's benign goodwill that kept us
together in those hard times. 2 bland, gentle, mild, warm: A
benign smile lit the headmaster's face as he announced the
awards for scholastic achievement. 3 kind, favourable,
fortunate; salutary, salubrious, mild, congenial, propitious:
She recovered rapidly in that most benign climate. 4 non-fatal,
non-malignant, non-virulent, curable, harmless: Fortunately,
the biopsy showed that the tumour was benign.
bent adj. 1 curved, deflected, bowed, crooked, distorted: He
complained to the waiter just because the fork was bent. 2
strange, weird, peculiar, twisted, deviant, warped, wry, awry,
corrupt, corrupted; perverted, perverse, abnormal: You'd be
bent, too, if you'd been in prison for fifteen years. 3
dishonest, crooked, illegal: That share deal sounds a bit bent
to me: I'll pass. 4 determined, intent, set, resolved,
resolute, decided, set: Garvey is bent on running in the
marathon, despite his sprained ankle.
--n. 5 turn, inclination, direction, disposition,
predisposition, tendency, bias, leaning, proclivity, propensity,