Word Meanings - LUCRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. The lust of lucre and the dread of death. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LUCRE)

• Pelf
• Lucre
• mammon
• Wealth
• Influence
• riches
• lucre
• plenty
• affluence
• abundance
• opulence

Related words: (words related to LUCRE)

• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• MAMMONISH
  Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.
• MAMMONIST
  A mammonite.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• RICHES
  1. That which makes one rich; an abundance of land, goods, money, or other property; wealth; opulence; affluence. Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbors. Locke. 2. That
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• WEALTHFUL
  Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
• LUCRE
  Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. The lust of lucre and the dread of death. Pope.
• PLENTY
  Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty."
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• MAMMON
  Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. Ye can not serve God and Mammon. Matt. vi. 24.
• WEALTHILY
  In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.
• MAMMONITE
  One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.
• MAMMONIZATION
  The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.
• MAMMONIZE
  To make mammonish.
• INFLUENCER
  One who, or that which, influences.
• MAMMONISM
  Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.
• AFFLUENCE
  1. A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle. 2. An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion;
• WEALTHY
  1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak. Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi. 12. 2. Hence, ample;
• WEALTH
  1. Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. "Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth." 1 Cor. x. 24. 2. Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence;
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• INVOLUCRE
  A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head. A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns. The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also
• INVOLUCRED
  Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc. Martyn.