lucrative
English
adj
Definitions
- Producing a surplus; profitable.
- (military) Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
Etymology
Borrowed from French lucratif derived from Latin lucrativus (profitable).
Origin
Latin
lucrativus
Gloss
profitable
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lucratively English
- lucrativeness English
- nonlucrative English
- unlucrative English
- lucrativus Latin
- lucrārī Latin
- lucratif French
- lucrar Spanish, Castilian
- lukrativ Norwegian Bokmål
- lukratywny Polish
- lukrativ Norwegian Nynorsk
- lukrativ Danish