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Etymology

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non- +‎ beneficial

Adjective

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nonbeneficial (comparative more nonbeneficial, superlative most nonbeneficial)

  1. Not beneficial; that produces no benefit.
    • 2007 February 18, Ezekiel Emanuel, “Unequal treatment”, in New York Times[1]:
      In more recent times, she writes, they have been disproportionately enrolled in risky, nonbeneficial research in gynecology, oncology, surgery, pediatrics, infectious disease and genetics .