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gainful adj.
profitable adj.
reimbursed adj.

ADJECTIVE

gainful

Synonyms

WEAK

advantageous beneficial fat fruitful generous going going concern good in the black lucrative lush moneymaking paying remunerative rewarding rich satisfying substantial sweet useful well-paying worthwhile

Antonyms

WEAK

disadvantageous unproductive unprofitable useless

ADJECTIVE

profitable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

beneficial commercial cost-effective effective fruitful good lucrative practical productive rewarding successful useful valuable worthwhile

WEAK

assisting conducive contributive effectual favorable gainful going in the black instrumental paying paying well pragmatic remunerative self-sustaining serviceable sustaining sweet well-paying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fruitless impotent incapable unfruitful unhelpful unproductive unprofitable unskilled useless valueless worthless

WEAK

disadvantageous

ADJECTIVE

reimbursed

Synonyms

STRONG

paid satisfied

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That strategy has paid off spectacularly -- coding is the rare AI skill that users are willing to pay handsomely for.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

That investment and others in the AI and tech sectors have paid off handsomely, but pivoting to a legacy NBA team with a locked-in elevated financial floor could be prudent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Instead, he made the surprising decision to field Marc Guehi in a holding role and, eventually, the gamble paid off.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

During the time I owned it, I paid off the mortgage.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

All that practice throwing onions into the handcart paid off.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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