Crossword-Solution: GAINFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gainful | a. | Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “GAINFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| breadwinning | 1 answer |
| Worthwhile, as employment | 1 answer |
| Like most employment | 1 answer |
| Kind of employment | 1 answer |
| Good type of employment | 1 answer |
| ___ of use | 6 answers |
| on the make | 9 answers |
| "Fit for __" | 13 answers |
| employable | 15 answers |
| Lucrative | 16 answers |
| Of service | 17 answers |
| paying | 21 answers |
| remunerative | 25 answers |
| moneymaking | 25 answers |
| Flourishing | 27 answers |
| Worthwhile | 27 answers |
| Blooming | 28 answers |
| utilitarian | 29 answers |
| rewarding | 31 answers |
| good for | 34 answers |
| Satisfying | 38 answers |
| Conquering ___ | 38 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| acquiring | 41 answers |
| Inherited | 45 answers |
| applied | 49 answers |
| Fecund | 52 answers |
| Functional | 53 answers |
| prolific | 57 answers |
| fertile | 57 answers |
| productive | 58 answers |
| Valuable | 60 answers |
| fruitful | 60 answers |
| profitable | 67 answers |
| Handy | 67 answers |
| advantageous | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAINFUL (5)
For my own part I openly declare that I am not convinced, and that I do not believe injustice to be more gainful than justice, even if uncontrolled and allowed to have free play.
Men say that it is beyond the Dry Tree; and that is afar, God wot! But now, lord Ralph, I rede thee go back again this evening with Andrew, my nephew, for company: forsooth, he will do little less gainful than riding with thee to Upmeads than if he abide in Wulstead; for he is idle.
The Ombudsman may not, during his term of office, engage in any other occupation, whether gainful or not.
But as this gainful branch of commerce must soon have been annihilated, it was found convenient to suppose, that the marvelous wood possessed a secret power of vegetation; and that its substance, though continually diminished, still remained entire and unimpaired.
Several of the gates were cautiously opened; the importation of provisions from the river and the adjacent country was no longer obstructed by the Goths; the citizens resorted in crowds to the free market, which was held during three days in the suburbs; and while the merchants who undertook this gainful trade made a considerable profit, the future subsistence of the city was secured by the ample magazines which were deposited in the public and private granaries.
Quotes with GAINFUL (3)
She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.
People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.
On Intelligence: Intelligence will not make you rich unless your intelligence is about getting rich. Corollary: Intelligence will lead one to to appreciate things that cost money over things that make money. Corollary: Being a genius is antithetical to being successful unless you're a genius at being successful. Corollary: Being intelligent does not make you rich but it can keep you from being poor. Corollary: Intelligence leads to interests, mostly not gainful. Corollary: In…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1986–2018).