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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If all goes as anticipated and the market rallies, the call spread proves profitable, and the money received for selling the put is kept.

From Barron's

“It’s not volatile like other companies, and that’s a function of the fact that it’s so broad-based and it’s very profitable.”

From Barron's

But Google was already public at that point, very profitable and generated about $8.5 billion in annual free cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal

The new technology will make workers more productive and businesses more profitable, allowing them to do more with less.

From MarketWatch

profitable

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