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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And while its revenue has shown consistent growth over the past few years, the eight-year-old company isn’t profitable yet and it has accumulated a lot of debt.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

There is often little culture - his most profitable shot is categorised by CricViz as a 'slog' - but the striking is remarkable for its regularity, its uncommon cleanness and its length.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

In a few years, the business was profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

What’s more, the company isn’t profitable yet, posting a net loss of nearly $50 million and widening the loss margin by 14 percentage points from a year earlier.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

The Rantz farm, like countless others across the country, had so far barely managed to remain profitable.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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