Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lucriferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lu-cri-f-er-ous
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

gainful; profitable

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[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 ones"

Etymology

From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: lucrum

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more lucriferous (comparative) most lucriferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does lucriferous mean?: gainful; profitable
Where does lucriferous come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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