Gainful

Synonyms for "gainful" (37 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (8)

profitable advantageous banausic beneficial breadwinning fat fruitful

Adjective(1 words)

advantageous

Strong matches (11)

Adjective(4 words)

gainsome lucrative lucriferous lucrific

generous good lucrative lush moneymaking of value

Adjective(1 words)

paid

Related words (18)

paying productive remunerative rewarding rich satisfying substantial useful valuable well well-paying well-spent worthwhile yielding a return

Adjective(3 words)

paying profitable remunerative

Adjective(1 words)

paying

Related word relations

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4 relation types

derived

4 entries

gainfully gainfulness ungainful ungainfully

derived from

1 entries

gain

related to

6 entries

advantage contrary fractious gain profitable troublesome

similar

2 entries

profitable

Translations

5 translations across 2 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

доходен adj (Providing gain; profitable)
изгоден adj (Providing gain; profitable)

Georgian

3 entries

მომგებიანი adj (Providing gain; profitable)
შემოსავლიანი adj (Providing gain; profitable)
ხელსაყრელი adj (Providing gain; profitable)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

How can we find gainful employment with dignity for the uneducated?

Source: wiktionary

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