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Juicy vs Lucrative - What's the difference?

juicy | lucrative |

As adjectives the difference between juicy and lucrative

is that juicy is having lots of juice while lucrative is producing a surplus; profitable.

juicy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • having lots of juice
  • a juicy peach
  • (of a story, etc. ) exciting, interesting, or enticing
  • I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.
  • (of a blow, strike, etc. ) strong, painful
  • * 1960:' ''“Your head feels funny, doesn't it?” “It does rather,” I said, the bump I had given it had been a '''juicy one, and the temples were throbbing.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter V)
  • * 1960:' ''Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the '''juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter I)
  • Antonyms

    * unjuicy

    Derived terms

    * juiciness

    lucrative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Producing a surplus; profitable.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}

    Usage notes

    * Said of profession, occupation, position, office, business, deal, etc.

    Antonyms

    * non-lucrative

    Derived terms

    * lucrativeness

    Anagrams

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