unremunerative

1. 1.

   not yielding profit or recompense

   “an unremunerative occupation”

   Similarunprofitable

Questions about unremunerative

What does unremunerative mean?

unremunerative means "not yielding profit or recompense".

How many syllables are in unremunerative?

unremunerative has 6 syllables: un-re-mu-ne-ra-tive. The stress falls on "ne".

Is unremunerative a common word?

unremunerative 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.