Thesaurus:gainful

Thesaurus

gainful

English

Adjective

Sense: providing reward, compensation or gain

Synonyms

• advantageous
• gainful
• gainsome
• lucrative
• lucriferous (obsolete)
• lucrific (obsolete)
• paying
• profitable
• remunerative

Antonyms

• disadvantageous
• fruitless
• gainless
• improfitable
• loss-making
• nonlucrative
• nonpaying
• ungainful
• unlucrative
• unprofitable
• unremunerative

Further reading

• “775. acquisition” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “gainful” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.