lucriferous

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lucriferous

Rhymes with -ɪfəɹəs

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From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

adjective more lucriferous · most lucriferous

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 ones

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@misc{lucriferous_2026,
  title = {lucriferous},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lucriferous},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}