Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Benevolence

Nouns
  • benevolence, Christian charity
  • God's love, God's grace
  • good will
  • philanthropy etc. Philanthropy
  • unselfishness etc. Disinterestedness. good nature, good feeling, good wishes
  • kindness, kindliness etc. adj.
  • loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy
  • goodness of heart, warmth of heart
  • bonhomie
  • kind-heartedness
  • amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness
  • love etc. Love
  • friendship etc. Friendship. toleration, consideration, generosity
  • mercy etc. (pity) Pity. charitableness etc. adj.
  • bounty, almsgiving
  • good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]. acts of kindness, a good turn
  • good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment. good Samaritan, sympathizer
  • altruist.
Verbs
  • be benevolent etc. adj.
  • have one's heart in the right place, bear good will
  • wish well, wish Godspeed
  • view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor
  • take in good part
  • take an interest in, feel an interest in
  • be interested in, feel interested in
  • sympathize with, empathize with, feel for
  • fraternize etc. (be friendly) Friendship. enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway. treat well
  • give comfort, smooth the bed of death
  • do good, do a good turn
  • benefit etc. (goodness) [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness
  • render a service, be of use
  • aid etc. Aid.
Adjectives
  • benevolent
  • kind, kindly
  • well-meaning
  • amiable
  • obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored. warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-hearted
  • merciful etc. Pity
  • charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant
  • bounteous, bountiful. good-natured, well-natured
  • spleenless
  • sympathizing, sympathetic
  • complaisant etc. (courteous) Courtesy
  • well-meant, well-intentioned. fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly
  • paternal, maternal, fraternal
  • sororal
  • friendly etc. Friendship.
Adverbs
  • with a good intention, with the best intentions.
Int
  • Godspeed!, much good may it do!
Phrases
  • act a charity sometimes" [Lamb]
  • a tender heart, a will inflexible" [Longfellow]
  • say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead
  • the social smile, the sympathetic tear" [Gray].