英和和英

発音

• IPA: /bəˈnɛvələnt/

形容詞

benevolent (comparative more benevolent, superlative most benevolent)

1. Having a disposition to do good.

   Chinese and Eastern mythologies describe dragons as benevolent.

   • 1641 or 1642 (first performance), Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew: Or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, […], London: […] J[ames] Y[oung] for E[dward] D[od] and N[athaniel] E[kins] […], published 1652, →OCLC, Act III, signature [H4], recto:

     Benevolence? vvhich ſhall I be benevolent to; or vvhich firſt? I am puſſell'd in the choice.

2. Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
3. Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
   • 1989 December 24, Kevin M. Cathcart, “Homophobia Never Innocent”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 5:

     This bill was not a gift from a benevolent legislature; it was a victory for the community which worked for its passage.

反意語

• malevolent

派生語

関連する語

• English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh₁- (0 c, 16 e)
• benefactor
• beneficent

参考

• well-wisher