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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous; money-making |
| Synonyms: | assisting, beneficial, commercial, conducive, contributive, cost-effective, effective, effectual, favorable, fruitful, gainful, going, good, in the black, instrumental, lucrative, paid off, paying, paying well, practical, pragmatic, productive, remunerative, rewarding, self-sustaining, serviceable, successful, sustaining, sweet*, useful, valuable, well-paying, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, unprofitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beneficial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous |
| Synonyms: | benign, constructive, favorable, favoring, gainful, good, good for what ails you, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, what the doctor ordered, wholesome, worthy |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurting, unfortunate, unhelpful, unrewarding |
| Main Entry: | commercial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning business, marketing |
| Synonyms: | across the counter, bartering, commissary, economic, exchange, financial, fiscal, for sale, in demand, in the market, market, marketable, mercantile, merchandising, monetary, pecuniary, popular, profit-making, profitable, retail, retailing, saleable, sales, supplying, trade, trading, wholesale, wholesaling |
| Antonyms: | noncommercial |
| Main Entry: | cost-effective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | practical, profitable, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | desirable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous, good |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, advisable, agreeable, beneficial, covetable, eligible, enviable, expedient, grateful, gratifying, helpful, pleasing, preferable, profitable, useful, welcome, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | bad, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, unprofitable |
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
| Synonyms: | bread-and-butter, budgetary, commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, mercantile, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, productive, profit-making, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Main Entry: | efficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adept, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, active, adapted, adequate, apt, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conducive, decisive, deft, dynamic, economic, economical, effectual, efficacious, energetic, equal to, experienced, expert, familiar with, fitted, good at, good for, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, well-organized |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | expedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worthwhile, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | ad hoc, advantageous, advisable, beneficial, convenient, desirable, discreet, effective, feasible, fit, fitting, helpful, judicious, meet, opportune, politic, possible, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, proper, prudent, seasonable, suitable, tactical, timely, useful, utilitarian, wise |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, inexpedient, unbeneficial, unprofitable, unworthwhile |
| Main Entry: | fat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, rich |
| Synonyms: | affluent, cushy, fertile, flourishing, fruitful, good, lucrative, lush, profitable, prosperous, remunerative, thriving |
| Antonyms: | impoverished, poor, unproductive |
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