remunerative

1. 1.

   for which money is paid

   “a paying job”

   “remunerative work”

   “salaried employment”

   “stipendiary services”

   Synonymscompensablepayingsalariedstipendiary

   Similarpaid
2. 2.

   producing a sizeable profit

   “a remunerative business”

   Synonymslucrativemoneymaking

   Similarprofitable

Questions about remunerative

What does remunerative mean?

remunerative means "for which money is paid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remunerative?

remunerative has 5 syllables: re-mu-ne-ra-tive. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /ɹiˈmjunɚətɪv/.

What is another word for remunerative?

Close synonyms include compensable, paying, salaried, stipendiary, lucrative. 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 remunerative a common word?

remunerative 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.