Word Meanings - LUCRATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon. 2. Greedy of gain Such diligence as the most

Additional info about word: LUCRATIVE

1. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon. 2. Greedy of gain Such diligence as the most part of our lucrative lawyers do use, in deferring and prolonging of matters and actions from term to term. Latimer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LUCRATIVE)

• Profitable
• Gainful
• advantageous
• desirable
• beneficial
• useful
• productive
• remunerative
• lucrative

Related words: (words related to LUCRATIVE)

• REMUNERATIVE
  Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business. -Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Re*mu"ner*a*tive*ness, n.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• GAINFUL
  Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. "A gainful speculation." Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• LUCRATIVE
  1. Yielding lucre; gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative business or office. The trade of merchandise being the most lucrative, may bear usury at a good rate. Bacon. 2. Greedy of gain Such diligence as the most
• BENEFICIALLY
  In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
• LUCRATIVELY
  In a lucrative manner.
• DESIRABLE
  Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable. All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.
• USEFUL
  Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books
• BENEFICIALNESS
  The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.
• DESIRABLENESS
  The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.
• PRODUCTIVE
  1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing;
• ADVANTAGEOUS
  Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation
• ADVANTAGEOUSLY
  Profitably; with advantage.
• USEFULLY
  In a useful manner.
• USEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison. Syn. -- Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• INDESIRABLE
  Undesirable.
• IMPROFITABLE
  Unprofitable.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.