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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Instead of reacting to higher VIX levels by increasing your equity exposure, in other words, the profitable course of action would be to significantly decrease it.

From MarketWatch

Besides growth, private-credit lending can be more profitable than other loans.

From The Wall Street Journal

Most automakers have pivoted back to their more profitable gas models.

From The Wall Street Journal

Executives said that will hurt the company’s bottom line, since corn tends to be a more profitable business.

From The Wall Street Journal

Growing its midsize platform is part of Lucid’s goal to become profitable.

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