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unremunerative

unremunerative adjective: not remunerative.

Adjective

unremunerative (comparative more unremunerative, superlative most unremunerative)

  1. Not remunerative.
    • Such a comparatively unremunerative occupation as that of carrying a few score head of cattle six times a year from Port Zodiac to Port Marivelles was not worth a ship-owner's thought […]1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 118
    • It is particularly desirable to obtain photographs of rural stations, both with and without a train, in view of the threatened wholesale closure of unremunerative branches throughout the country.1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78

unremunerative meaning in Tamil and Kannada

unremunerative in Tamil

ஆதாயம் இல்லாத, ஈட்டமில்லாத

unremunerative in Kannada

ಗಿಟ್ಟದ, ಲಾಭಕರವಲ್ಲದ, ಉತ್ಪನ್ನಕಾರಕವಲ್ಲದ, ಪ್ರತಿಫಲವಿಲ್ಲದ

Forms of unremunerative

comparativemore unremunerative
superlativemost unremunerative

Origin of unremunerative

From un- + remunerative.

Words formed from unremunerative

Questions about unremunerative

What does unremunerative mean?
Unremunerative means not remunerative.
What is unremunerative in Tamil?
Unremunerative in Tamil is ஆதாயம் இல்லாத, ஈட்டமில்லாத. See Unremunerative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unremunerative?
Unremunerative is an adjective.

Words near unremunerative in the dictionary

  1. unremovably
  2. unremoveability
  3. unremoved
  4. unremunerated
  5. unremunerating
  6. unremunerative
  7. unremuneratively
  8. unremunerativeness
  9. unrenamable
  10. unrenderable
  11. unrendered

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unremunerative (page history and authors); unremunerative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unremunerative (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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