gainful
Adjective Satellite
- yielding a fair profit
Adj
- Contrary.
- Disposed to taking advantage of.
- Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle.
- Providing gain; profitable.
Adjective
- Profitable; yielding a financial or other benefit.
Examples
- Every word played strategically on the triple-word score was a gainful endeavor.
- How can we find gainful employment with dignity for the uneducated?
Origin / Etymology
From gain (“against, contrary”) + -ful.
Synonyms
paid, paying, advantageous, gainful, gainsome, lucrative, lucriferous, lucrific, profitable, remunerative
Antonyms
disadvantageous, fruitless, gainless, improfitable, loss-making, nonlucrative, nonpaying, ungainful, unlucrative, unprofitable, unremunerative
Scrabble Score: 11
gainful: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgainful: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gainful: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary