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单词 unbeneficial
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unbeneficialadj.

Forms: see un- prefix1 and beneficial adj. and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, beneficial adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + beneficial adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unbeneˈficial.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > disadvantageousness > [adjective]
discommodious1540
disprofitable1548
disadvantageous1550
disadvantageable1587
inexpedient1608
disvantageous1622
unbeneficial1626
inconvenient1651
unserviceable1698
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adjective] > not beneficial
unhale1483
unbeneficial1626
unsaving1628
ungenial1726
unblessing1769
unsalutary1770
1626 Bp. H. King Serm. Deliuerance 63 Salubrity or Aire is His Gift; shift of Places, smells to prepossesse the Senses, but for Him had been vnbeneficiall.
1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 125 That it becomes unbeneficial to him [sc. God]..is purely by accident.
1718 Entertainer No. 24. 162 If duly apply'd, it may be, not unbeneficial.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxii. 79 It would admit an exchange among ourselves beneficially instead of an unbeneficial exchange with distant parts.
1839 Palmerston in G. H. Francis Opin. & Pol. (1852) 418 We shall be doing that which will not be unbeneficial or unacceptable to some of those persons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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