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What is the adjective for gainful?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb gain which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

gain
  1. (obsolete) Straight, direct; near; short.
  2. (obsolete) Suitable; convenient; ready.
  3. (dialectal) Easy; tolerable; handy, dexterous.
  4. (dialectal) Honest; respectable; moderate; cheap.
gainly
  1. (Britain dialectal) Proper; suitable; becoming.
  2. (archaic) Ready to help; kindly; gracious.
  3. (of conduct) Graceful; tactful;
  4. (of bodily form, attitude, or movement) Shapely; handsome.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. voluptuous, curvaceous, shapely, buxom, curvy, ample, Junoesque, busty, opulent, Rubensesque, sexy, hot, comely, bodacious, full-figured, full-bosomed, well-proportioned, well formed, well-stacked, well turned, sexually attractive … more
gainful
  1. Contrary.
  2. Disposed to taking advantage of.
  3. Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. profitable, lucrative, remunerative, fruitful, productive, moneymaking, worthwhile, paying, rewarding, beneficial, economic, useful, advantageous, valuable, fat, juicy, rich, good, going, lush, sweet, substantial, fructuous, money-spinning, financially rewarding, win-win, well-paying, well-paid, in the black, paid off, very productive, successful, thriving, profit-making, money-making, commercial, flourishing, cost-effective, booming, bankable, solvent, monied, high-income, commercially successful, opulent, well-heeled, viable, well-off, wealthy, well-to-do … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “In this case, their activity would be considered as gainful work, provided the activity did not appear to be deliberately contrived to meet the scheme's requirements.”
      “How fortunate we are that someone is teaching this as opposed to foolishly wasting time teaching how to obtain and keep gainful employment.”
      “In contrast, this training has given them gainful employment and, above all, recognition and self-confidence.”
gainless
  1. Not producing gain; not bringing advantage; unprofitable.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fruitless, useless, futile, ineffective, ineffectual, unproductive, vain, pointless, worthless, unprofitable, unsuccessful, unavailing, profitless, inefficacious, abortive, empty, bootless, idle, otiose, barren, hollow, unrewarding, wasted, needless, unfruitful, unprolific, unavailable, in vain, to no avail, to no effect, for naught, spinning one's wheels, wild goose chase, hopeless, inutile, sterile, uneconomic, unremunerative, dry, unlucrative, valueless, purposeless, failed, nugatory, meaningless, impotent, senseless, to no purpose, insignificant, of no use … more
gainsome
  1. Well-formed; handsome; gainly.
gainsome
  1. Marked by gain; gainful; profitable.
gainable
  1. Capable of being gained (in any sense), obtained, or reached.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. learnable, masterable, memorizable, ascertainable, comprehensible, detectable, digestible, discoverable, graspable, understandable, absorbable, acquirable, attainable, pursuable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The eternal soul known as the atma is not gainable merely by hearing about it.”
      “I know that in the case of other wrappers, they said there was SDK header information in the source code, gainable only from an SDK or a decompilation of their drivers.”
      “Furthermore, the classification results of the proposed method were compared with gainable results, and qualitative consistencies could be gained as expected.”
gainful
  1. Providing gain; profitable.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. profitable, lucrative, remunerative, fruitful, productive, moneymaking, worthwhile, paying, rewarding, beneficial, economic, useful, advantageous, valuable, fat, juicy, rich, good, going, lush, sweet, substantial, fructuous, money-spinning, financially rewarding, win-win, well-paying, well-paid, in the black, paid off, very productive, successful, thriving, profit-making, money-making, commercial, flourishing, cost-effective, booming, bankable, solvent, monied, high-income, commercially successful, opulent, well-heeled, viable, well-off, wealthy, well-to-do … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In this case, their activity would be considered as gainful work, provided the activity did not appear to be deliberately contrived to meet the scheme's requirements.”
      “How fortunate we are that someone is teaching this as opposed to foolishly wasting time teaching how to obtain and keep gainful employment.”
      “In contrast, this training has given them gainful employment and, above all, recognition and self-confidence.”
gainfull
  1. Archaic form of gainful.
gainfuller
  1. (rare) comparative form of gainful: more gainful
gainlier
  1. comparative form of gainly: more gainly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shapelier, buxomer, curvier, ampler, bustier, sexier, hotter, comelier, more voluptuous, more curvaceous, more Junoesque, more opulent, more bodacious, more well-proportioned, more well-stacked … more
gainliest
  1. superlative form of gainly: most gainly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shapeliest, buxomest, curviest, amplest, bustiest, sexiest, hottest, comeliest, most voluptuous, most curvaceous, most Junoesque, most opulent, most bodacious, most well-proportioned, most well-stacked … more
gained
  1. simple past tense and past participle of gain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. found, achieved, attained, acquired, got, obtained, understood, had, knew, realized, won, felt, landed, reached, wangled, bagged, earned, hit, secured, sensed, met, came by, came to have, got hold of, got one's hands on, laid hold of, fell to the lot, got a hold of, met with, realised, procured, snapped up, took possession of, got into one's hands, got one's mitts on, got one's fingers on, laid one's hands on, took, pulled in, gathered up, prehended, hauled in, picked up, received, bought, come to have, purchased, scored, gotten, gat … more
gaining
  1. present participle of gain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, acquiring, obtaining, coming by, coming to have, coming into possession of, receiving, earning, winning, coming into, coming in for, taking possession of, taking receipt of, buying, purchasing, procuring, possessing oneself of, securing, gathering, collecting, picking up, appropriating, amassing, building up, hooking, netting, landing, achieving, attaining, getting hold of, getting hands on, grabbing, bagging, getting one's hands on, getting one's mitts on, scoring, snagging, gleaning, nabbing, collaring, having, copping, latching onto, racking up, accessing, locking up, swinging, inheriting, making, realizing … more
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