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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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For dealers, fixing cars is orders of magnitude more profitable than selling them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 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

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

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

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

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