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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Options market veterans who spoke with MarketWatch said they were surprised the trading style remained profitable for as long as it did.

From MarketWatch

Maley believes that questions surrounding how profitable the AI industry is will increasingly cause investors to pare exposure to the tech sector into the first quarter of next year.

From MarketWatch

And the Wall Street Journal reported last month that Anthropic, while unprofitable, was on track to become profitable more quickly than OpenAI.

From MarketWatch

Sides, pastas and desserts tend to be more profitable, with lower ingredient costs.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Barron's

profitable

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