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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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“They’ve been able to make the company more profitable from a margin perspective, but on a lower sales space.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Some have even ditched fishing altogether because it is more profitable to sell the plastic waste they trawl out of the river, the world's second-most powerful watercourse after the Amazon.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

To pay for it, Porter would impose a progressive corporate tax, meaning more profitable businesses and corporations would pay a higher rate.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

It shed a number of unprofitable events and struck a series of deals targeting more profitable categories.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg