lucrative

Speech parts

1. lucrative - Adjective

2. lucrative - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office.

Greedy of gain.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

remunerative rich paying productive profitable beneficial advantageous fruitful worthwhile rewarding promising moneymaking gainful money-making midas
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Antonyms

defeated damaging ineffective depressed deadly diminishing
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Related terms

lucre Lucretia Lucretius lucriferous lucrific

Phrases with the word

highly lucrative be lucrative lucrative to lucrative pay

Anagrams

revictual victualer

Examples

Necessity 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

Close letter words and terms

lucky winner lucmo lucoddy lucrative to lucratively lucrativeness