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

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more profitable

Dealers can sell the packages as add-ons for customers as they are obtaining financing for a new vehicle at the point of sale, making already lucrative sales of premium models even more profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

If complementing rather than replacing workers is ultimately more profitable, successful firms will choose that path without government intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

BP, whose performance has generally fallen behind that of its rivals in recent years, has in recent times slashed clean energy investment as it pivots back to its more profitable oil and gas business.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Overall, the quarter showed “growing evidence that Ford is becoming a more profitable, more disciplined and genuinely different company,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

How much more profitable the store would be!

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen