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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

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

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

It was not entirely his fault that he lived in a society where a man’s death could be more profitable than his life had ever been.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy