lucriferous

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adjective

gainful; profitable

OriginLatin lucrum →
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Meanings

adjectivelucriferous (comparative more lucriferous, superlative most lucriferous)

comparative more lucriferous · superlative most lucriferous

  1. obsoletegainful; profitable

    [B]eing a bachelor, and through God's bounty furnished with a competent estate for a younger brother, and freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous ones

    1774, Robert Boyle, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Thomas Birch, page cxxx

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
gainful

Origin

  1. Latinlucrum“gain”
  2. Englishlucriferous

From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with lucriferous

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APA

lucriferous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucriferous

MLA

“lucriferous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucriferous. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lucriferous,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucriferous.

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