profitable

[prof-i-tuh-buhl] / ˈprɒf ɪ tə bəl /

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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“Devon Energy will be strongly positioned to deliver top-tier capital efficiency gains and consistent profitable per share growth through the commodity cycles.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Palantir is fairly unique among fast-growing software companies in that it is very profitable.

From Barron's

Experiences has been Disney’s most profitable unit for years.

From MarketWatch

At times in recent months, regional gaps in prices got so wide that it has been profitable for traders to move silver by air.

From The Wall Street Journal

profitable

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