gainfully

Definitions

In a way that produces profit or financial advantage.

In a manner that involves being employed or earning a wage.

Examples

After months of searching, he was finally gainfully employed at a local architecture firm.

The program aims to help underprivileged youth become gainfully occupied in their chosen trades.

Synonyms

profitably productively advantageously remuneratively lucratively usefully effectively

Antonyms

unprofitably unproductively uselessly ineffectively fruitlessly pointlessly idly