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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But developers found it more profitable to subsidize 100% of their units at the smallest allowable discount, a rent affordable to households at 60% of median income.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2026

Alongside this revenue growth, Google Cloud is also set to become more profitable as TPUs lower the cost of building data centers.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

The restaurant chain’s shares shot up Tuesday after Julie Felss Masino unveiled a more profitable outlook and said diners were returning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

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

But they sent in a physician, in whose hands and voice was a more enduring, a more profitable comfort than any I ever found in Orgoreyn.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin