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 and divides as un-re-mu-ne-ra-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.