Synonyms for remunerative
- adjective
Most common
lucrative profitable gainful money-making salaried stipendiary
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Lucrative
lucrative, profitable, gainful, money-making, moneymaking US, fat
2. Salaried
Definitions
- adj. 1
Offering compensation, usually financial; rewarding; lucrative.
Joan found the work not only pleasant, but remunerative, as well.
Example sentences
- profitable What you've done is profitable only to the enemy.
- lucrative Sami began a lucrative career as a diamond trader.
- salaried I'm a company man - an ordinary salaried office worker.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| remunerative | falling | |
| profitable | falling | |
| lucrative | rising | |
| gainful | falling | |
| salaried | falling | |
| stipendiary | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- fat1
- 7 letters
- gainful2
- 8 letters
- salaried3
- 9 letters
- lucrative3
- 10 letters
- profitable4
- 11 letters
- moneymaking4, stipendiary, compensable4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gainful2 = 2 syllables).