gainful

1. 1.

   yielding a fair profit

   Synonymspaidpaying

   Similarprofitable

Other forms of gainful

comparative

gainfuller·

superlative

gainfullest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gainful

What does gainful mean?

gainful means "yielding a fair profit".

How many syllables are in gainful?

gainful has 2 syllables: gain-ful. The stress falls on "gain". In IPA it is /ˈɡeɪnfəl/.

What is another word for gainful?

Close synonyms include paid, paying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gainful a common word?

gainful is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.