Benevolent

Etymology
bene: + volo:.

Adjective

 * 1) Having a disposition to do good.
 * Chinese and Eastern mythologies describe dragons as benevolent.


 * 1) Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
 * 2) altruistic or charitable.
 * 3) generous.

Antonyms

 * malevolent

Thesaurus
accommodating, advantageous, affable, agreeable, almsgiving, altruistic, amiable, amicable, auspicious, beneficent, beneficial, benign, benignant, big, bighearted, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, caring, charitable, chivalrous, cogent, commendable, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, conciliatory, considerate, cooperative, decent, eleemosynary, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, favorable, fine, forbearing, forgiving, freehearted, friendly, generous, good, goodly, gracious, grand, greathearted, healthy, helpful, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, laudable, liberal, lofty, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, neighborly, nice, noble, obliging, open-handed, openhanded, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, permissive, philanthropic, placable, pleasant, profitable, propitious, public-spirited, regal, royal, salutary, skillful, sound, sparing, splendid, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, unresentful, unrevengeful, useful, valid, very good, virtuous, warm-hearted, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant

Translations

 * Bulgarian: доброжелателен, благосклонен
 * Dutch:
 * German:


 * Greek: καλοήθης
 * Kurdish:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: човеколюбив
 * Dutch:


 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: щедър,
 * Dutch:


 * Russian: