1. lucrative - Adjective
2. lucrative - Adjective Satellite
Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.
Greedy of gain.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNecessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. William Shenstone
The desire to tell the truth is only one condition for being an intellectual. The other is courage, readiness to carry on rational inquiry to wherever it may lead ... to withstand ... comfortable and lucrative conformity. Paul A. Baran
Sedgwick has managed to convert pedestrian critical skills and little discernible knowledge in history, philosophy, psychology, art or even pre-modern literature into a lucrative academic career. Camille Paglia
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough. Robert Louis Stevenson
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. Thomas Paine
An ill-paying job is better than a lucrative heist. Russian Proverb