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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

Private-equity investors are trying to combine America’s mom-and-pop condominium managers into larger and more profitable businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

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

From Barron's • May 21, 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 they sent in a physician, in whose hands and voice was a more enduring, a more profitable comfort than any I ever found in Orgoreyn.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin