gainlessly

1. 1.

   without gain or profit

   Synonymsprofitlesslyunprofitably

Questions about gainlessly

What does gainlessly mean?

gainlessly means "without gain or profit".

How many syllables are in gainlessly?

gainlessly has 3 syllables: gain-les-sly. The stress falls on "gain".

What is another word for gainlessly?

Close synonyms include profitlessly, unprofitably. 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 gainlessly a common word?

gainlessly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.