benevolent
buh-NEV-uh-luntadjMeaning kind and wishing good for others
Memory hook BEN VOLunteers. Every Saturday, Ben volunteers at the bread table; a man who gives his time to help others is benevolent.
The benevolent neighbor shoveled every driveway on the street after the storm.
In context Though the old shopkeeper looked stern, the town knew him to be benevolent; every winter he quietly paid the heating bills of families who could not.
Similar kind, charitable, generous, kindly
Opposite malevolent, cruel, spiteful
From Latin benevolens, “wishing well”: bene (well) + volens (wishing).