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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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For dealers, fixing cars is orders of magnitude more profitable than selling them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

Food-delivery companies are also preparing for the next stage in the market, when they hope autonomous vehicles and robots will enable quicker and more profitable deliveries.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

To pay for it, Porter would impose a progressive corporate tax, meaning more profitable businesses and corporations would pay a higher rate.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

But he said Barnes & Noble has earned larger discounts because the focus on efficiency has made publishers more profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

Ma and Pa think he should socialize more, make more profitable connections.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman