(a) Advantageous, profitable, expedient; helpful; physically beneficial; -- often with for- or to- phrase, infinitive phrase, or that- clause; (b) of counsel, advice, words: helpful, sound, good; of laws, ordinances, etc.: beneficial; (c) of places: providing practical or strategic advantages; of times or days: propitious, auspicious, favorable; (d) yielding spiritual or moral benefit, spiritually or morally helpful; (e) ?better.

(a) Useful, serviceable; (b) efficacious, effective, healing; ~ ayenes (for), effective as the remedy of (a disease); ~ to, beneficial for (sb. suffering from a disease), effective for treatment of (a disease, pain, etc.); (c) fitting, appropriate; (d) of persons: able, competent; helpful (to sb. or a community); worthy, valuable.

Yielding profits, revenue, or income; lucrative, remunerative; also fig.

(a) Of places: plenteous, yielding abundantly; of persons, animals: thriving, healthy, flourishing; (b) of a newborn offspring: healthy, live; (c) spiritually rich; (d) leading to improvement.

Of vows:?fulfilled, accomplished.

As noun: (a) benefit; gain; (b) a useful property or quality.