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lucriferous

lucriferous adjective: gainful; profitable.

Adjective

lucriferous (comparative more lucriferous, superlative most lucriferous)

  1. (obsolete) gainful; 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 ones1774, Robert Boyle, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Thomas Birch, page cxxx

Forms of lucriferous

comparativemore lucriferous
superlativemost lucriferous

Origin of lucriferous

From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

Words that rhyme with lucriferous

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Questions about lucriferous

What does lucriferous mean?
Lucriferous means gainful; profitable.
What part of speech is lucriferous?
Lucriferous is an adjective.

Words near lucriferous in the dictionary

  1. lucre
  2. Lucret
  3. Lucretia
  4. Lucretian
  5. Lucretius
  6. lucriferous
  7. lucrific
  8. Lucrine
  9. lucripetous
  10. lucrous
  11. Lucsuhin

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