Word Meanings - GAINFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GAINFUL)

• Profitable
• Gainful
• advantageous
• desirable
• beneficial
• useful
• productive
• remunerative
• lucrative

Related words: (words related to GAINFUL)

• REMUNERATIVE
  Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• GAINFUL
  Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• LUCRATIVE
  1. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon. 2. Greedy of gain Such diligence as the most
• BENEFICIALLY
  In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
• LUCRATIVELY
  In a lucrative manner.
• DESIRABLE
  Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable. All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.
• USEFUL
  Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books
• BENEFICIALNESS
  The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.
• DESIRABLENESS
  The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.
• PRODUCTIVE
  1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing;
• ADVANTAGEOUS
  Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation
• ADVANTAGEOUSLY
  Profitably; with advantage.
• USEFULLY
  In a useful manner.
• USEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison. Syn. -- Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• INDESIRABLE
  Undesirable.
• IMPROFITABLE
  Unprofitable.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.