<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.</li><li>Helpful in the meeting of needs: a beneficial association.</li><li>Involving the personal enjoyment of proceeds: a beneficial owner.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(plural: necessities) Something necessary or required for a particular purpose; necessity.</li><li>Law: food, clothing, etc., required by a dependent person and varying with their social or economic position or that of the person upon whom they are dependent.</li><li>Chiefly New England: a privy or toilet.</li></ul>