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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Now the industry needs to prove it can be profitable.

From Barron's

Typically, companies must be profitable and public for a year before entering the index.

From Barron's

Consider a study that appeared several years ago analyzing roughly 100 profitable investing strategies that were reported in peer-reviewed academic journals.

From MarketWatch

It was the right decision; the acquisition diversified and proved profitable to Simon’s portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal

This led to a halt of the company’s testing and, eventually, Uber ended its in-house efforts as it focused on becoming profitable.

From The Wall Street Journal

profitable

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