Definitions

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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And two, Microsoft is using capacity in its all-important Azure cloud to service the business, perhaps at the expense of other, more profitable work.

From Barron's

UPS said it decided to scale back Amazon shipments because the high volume wasn’t profitable enough and dented overall margins.

From The Wall Street Journal

Once Upon a Farm is not yet profitable.

From Barron's

Basically, the company is selling more of its higher-margin, presumably higher-priced products and seeing double-digit growth within its Services business, which includes things like the App Store that are generally more profitable than hardware.

From MarketWatch

profitable

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