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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Yau said fewer than five repairmen like him remain in Hong Kong practising this "barely profitable" umbrella trade.

From Barron's

Coty has projected it will return to profitable sales growth in the second half of its current fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dr. Seuss’ holiday parable “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” has been a seasonal favorite since it was published in 1957, ranking among the most popular and profitable of the author’s iconic rhyming picture books.

From Los Angeles Times

“We were scratching and clawing for any order, let alone profitable ones,” Moreno says.

From The Wall Street Journal

Refining oil into fuel, part of the companies’ “downstream” operations, has been a profitable business for both companies this year, in part because Ukraine has destroyed several Russian refineries, reducing total global capacity.

From Barron's

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