1. Intending or showing kindness
   "a benevolent society" 
2. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
   - charitable, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted 
3. Generous in providing aid to others
   - freehearted 
4. Generous in assistance to the poor
   "a benevolent contributor"
   - beneficent, eleemosynary, philanthropic

See also: benevolence, benevolently, charitable, generous, kind

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