lucrative

Adjective Satellite

producing a sizeable profit

Adj

Producing a surplus; profitable.
Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“I gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.

Synonyms

moneymaking, remunerative

Antonyms

nonlucrative

Scrabble Score: 14

lucrative: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
lucrative: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lucrative: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

lucrative: valid Words With Friends Word