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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The automaker recorded $19.5 billion in write-downs last year to pivot back to more profitable gas vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

LIV chief executive Scott O'Neil said in February that the tour would not be profitable for another five to 10 years.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

By listing the same property multiple times with varying prices across multiple platforms, they were able to choose the most profitable reservation while canceling others, according to the plea agreements.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

While the company has been profitable on an adjusted Ebitda basis over the past 10 quarters, on net income basis, the company has only posted a profit in two of the past 10 quarters.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

“We were profitable almost from the start,” said Barksdale.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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