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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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Ken Segall, Jobs's creative director for 12 years, told the BBC that Apple's current chief executive, Tim Cook, had done an "amazing job" at changing with the times and keeping the company profitable.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Palantir did not report its first profitable quarter until the end of 2022, almost two decades after it was founded.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

With that money, SpaceX built a dominant launch franchise and profitable communications business.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Without one, it could take three years for International Coconut Corp. to become profitable again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

How much more profitable the store would be!

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.