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more profitable

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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In February this year, postal workers told the BBC that some letters had been sitting undelivered for weeks and that they had been told to prioritise parcel delivery instead as it is more profitable.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Food-delivery companies are also preparing for the next stage in the market, when they hope autonomous vehicles and robots will enable quicker and more profitable deliveries.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Perhaps more worryingly, though, SpaceX’s decision to rent out a massive amount of AI computing to Anthropic signals that it can’t find more profitable uses of its own for the equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Now, AI companies are pitching their products to the finance industry, where dozens of tasks stand to be automated—and Winters says this will help the bank become even more profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Ma and Pa think he should socialize more, make more profitable connections.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman