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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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To cover sharply higher costs, airlines are raising fares and pulling down flights that will no longer be profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

That backdrop has left many miners struggling to stay profitable.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Also at Ras Laffan, Shell’s highly profitable Pearl gas-to-liquids facility was struck so heavily that one of its two production lines will be closed for at least a year, according to the company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Firefly and Rocket Lab aren’t expected to be profitable in 2026, so they don’t have PE ratios.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

“An unexpectedly profitable end to the day, Doughty.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo