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more profitable

ADJECTIVE

advantageous; money-making

Synonyms

STRONGEST

beneficial commercial cost-effective effective fruitful good lucrative practical productive rewarding successful useful valuable worthwhile

WEAK

assisting conducive contributive effectual favorable gainful going in the black instrumental paid off paying paying well pragmatic remunerative self-sustaining serviceable sustaining sweet well-paying

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fruitless impotent incapable unfruitful unhelpful unproductive unprofitable unskilled useless valueless worthless

WEAK

disadvantageous

Example Sentences

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In February this year, postal workers told the BBC that some letters had been sitting undelivered for weeks and that they had been told to prioritise parcel delivery instead as it is more profitable.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

“They’ve been able to make the company more profitable from a margin perspective, but on a lower sales space.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Or maybe they thought SpaceX’s launch business was more profitable.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Now, AI companies are pitching their products to the finance industry, where dozens of tasks stand to be automated—and Winters says this will help the bank become even more profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

But then they wound up doing something quite different from—and, ultimately, more profitable than—what everyone else who bet against the subprime mortgage market was doing: They bet against the upper floors—the double-A tranches—of the CDOs.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis