English Explanatory Dictionary

gainful

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Contrary.
  2. Disposed to taking advantage of.
  3. Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle.
adj
  1. Providing gain; profitable.

Word forms

gainful more gainful most gainful gainfull

Etymology

From gain (“against, contrary”) + -ful.

Synonyms

advantageous gainful gainsome lucrative lucriferous lucrific paying profitable remunerative

Antonyms

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

Derived words

gainfully gainfulness ungainful ungainfully
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