fruitful vs gainful

fruitful

adj
  • Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits. 

  • Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren. 

gainful

adj
  • Providing gain; profitable. 

  • Contrary. 

  • Troublesome; fractious; hard to handle. 

  • Disposed to taking advantage of. 

How often have the words fruitful and gainful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )