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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. generous in assistance to the poor;
- Example: "a benevolent contributor"
- Example: "eleemosynary relief"
- Example: "philanthropic contributions"
[syn: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic]

2. of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy;
- Example: "a philanthropic society"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Philanthropic \Phil`an*throp"ic\, Philanthropical
\Phil`an*throp"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. philanthropique.]
   Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by
   philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic
   enterprise. -- Phil`an*throp"ic*al*ly, adv.
   [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "philanthropic":
   almsgiving, altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, bighearted,
   charitable, contributing, donating, eleemosynary, freehanded,
   freehearted, generous, giving, good, greathearted, humane,
   humanitarian, kindhearted, largehearted, magnanimous, munificent,
   open-handed, openhearted, public, spirited, ungrudging, unstinting,
   welfare, welfare statist, welfarist