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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Rivian lost $3.6 billion last year and hasn’t been profitable since its founding in 2009.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Nvidia, which operates a highly profitable business making the expensive chips AI runs on, fell as much as 4% in midday trading Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Of particular concern are questions about how profitable it is to maintain the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Alphabet’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude—the products at the heart of the investment boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

There are countless examples of falling prices in new technology driving profitable growth.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 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

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