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gainfully

gainfully

8 4.0
In a way that earns money
  • adverb
  • /ˈɡeɪn.fəl.i/
translation icon : rentablemente
  • After graduating, she quickly found a job and is now gainfully employed at a tech company.
  • gainfully employed

Some of you guys are going to, you know, be gainfully employed.

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Examples

  • Consider how difficult it is for young people to become gainfully employed today.

    Blog text (17)
  • In practice, parental insurance has been an incentive for women to be gainfully employed before they get pregnant.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I finally have an interview tomorrow morning, and with any luck, I will once again become gainfully employed!

    Blog text (20)
  • We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system.

    Blog text (33)
  • The supervisor went on: "Essentially, do what you got to do to stay gainfully employed."

    Blog text (27)
  • Peace would run rampant, education would be open to all, and the poor would be gainfully employed!

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Until there are gainfully employed workers with disposable income, this decade is lost.

    Blog text (5)
  • That means sane, sober and gainfully employed.

  • Temple Street near the docks was the meeting place of the gainfully employed and the desperately unemployed.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • For example, millions of people used to be gainfully employed shuffling paper, and communications networks have eliminated those jobs.

    Blog text (32)

Synonyms

profitably
vsgainfully
7 4.1

In a way that makes money or gives an advantage

emphasizes earning money rather than other kinds of benefit
advantageously
vsgainfully
1 5.2

In a way that gives you a benefit or helps you succeed

is used for earning money specifically rather than general advantage
beneficially
vsgainfully
1 4.1

In a way that helps and makes things better

is limited to earning money or providing financial profit
lucratively
vsgainfully
1 5.3

To make a lot of money

focuses on earning money generally rather than very large amounts
juicily
vsgainfully
7.1

In a way that gives a lot of money

covers earning money generally rather than unusually large gains

Antonyms

In a way that does not make money

How Profitable

lucratively
1 5.3
profitably
7 4.1
gainfully
8 4.0

Surface Forms

gainfully positive

Morphology

gainfully = gainful (transparent) = gain + ful + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to 'gainful', preserving the adjectival meaning.

Etymology

The word gainfully starts with gain, which means 'to get', and adds -ful, meaning 'full of', like in helpful, plus -ly to show how something is done, so gainfully means doing something in a way that 'gets' you money.