Benefit and Ought

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Benefit

Benefit noun - A thing that helps.
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Ought is an antonym for benefit.
Nearby Words: beneficial, benefaction, beneficent, benefited, beneficence

Ought

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Benefit is an antonym for ought in topics: responsibility, burden.
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  • Literature / Rihannsu If you’re competent about it, the action ought to benefit everybody’s honor, but you’re supposed to be thinking of your own.
    Source: Literature / Rihannsu
  • Deliberate Values Dissonance If you're competent about it, the action ought to benefit everybody's honor, but you're supposed to be thinking of your own.
    Source: Deliberate Values Dissonance
  • Creator / Voltaire As he notes in his "Letters on England": ''The English have reaped very great benefit from the writers of our nation, and therefore (since they have not scrupled to be in our debt) we ought to borrow from them.
    Source: Creator / Voltaire
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