philanthropic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

philanthropic
    adj 1: generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent
           contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic
           contributions" [syn: {beneficent}, {benevolent},
           {eleemosynary}, {philanthropic}]
    2: of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy; "a
       philanthropic society"

from 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]

from 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

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