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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The merger combines a highly profitable rocket company with an AI startup that is burning through billions of dollars as it competes with OpenAI and other rivals for dominance in artificial intelligence.

From Los Angeles Times

BP’s push to become a simpler and more profitable business after years of underperforming its peers comes amid a weaker oil and gas price environment.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company said it had a strong end to last year as higher sales of more profitable products and productivity measures helped drive earnings, partly offset by higher tariff costs.

From The Wall Street Journal

None of the companies REV owned were profitable, according to former employees and the SEC.

From The Wall Street Journal

Today, Nvidia is nearly 20 times as valuable and five times as profitable as IBM was back then, adjusted for inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal

profitable

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