paying well

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 paid off paying pragmatic remunerative self-sustaining serviceable sustaining sweet well-paying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fruitless impotent incapable unfruitful unhelpful unproductive unprofitable unskilled useless valueless worthless

WEAK

disadvantageous

Example Sentences

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Bankers note that their loan customers are paying well, and they are not seeing a broad buildup in delinquencies.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

By the time she arrived in 2015, there was already growing concern about garment factories paying well below the living wage.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

I’m proud of treating my employees well — paying well, providing health insurance and benefits, supporting their needs and ambitions.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

He tracks his gas expenses using an app — paying well over $5 a gallon to fill up his tank with premium gas.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022

Repairing the miles of fencing would take him and Miguel all summer, but the Lonogans were paying well enough, and it would keep Finn out of Sean’s way.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

paying well

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