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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Whether or not that concentration concerns you, owning the entire market, maybe even with an extra nod toward its overlooked small-fry, could be a profitable decision.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, “Zootopia 2” will be significantly more profitable for Disney than “Fire and Ash.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Investors, he added, are asking “are these investments sustainable? Are they going to be profitable? Are there going to be cash flows, or will there not be?”

From The Wall Street Journal

On the other side of the world, US companies like OpenAI are under intense pressure to increase revenue and become profitable - and is now turning to ads to help get there.

From BBC

The company expects to be marginally profitable, at least for now.

From MarketWatch

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