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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

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

Now, AI companies are pitching their products to the finance industry, where dozens of tasks stand to be automated—and Winters says this will help the bank become even more profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 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