Gainful

Definition of Gainful:

part of speech: adverb

GAINFULLY.

part of speech: adjective

Profitable.

part of speech: adjective

Yielding profit; advantageous.

part of speech: noun

GAINFULNESS.

Usage examples for Gainful:

• Altogether more than 8, 000, 000 women are engaged in gainful occupations in the United States. "Problems in American Democracy", Thames Ross Williamson.

• The avarice of our parents, who both had more gainful views for us, prevented an union on which our happiness depended. "The History of Emily Montague", Frances Brooke.

• This was for several years so gainful a business to the Settlement, as to cause it to be proverbial in the West Indies; that 'Shipwrecks and Pirates were the only hopes of the Island Providence. "History of the Buccaneers of America", James Burney.