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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SpaceX’s higher valuation also could mean that SpaceX is growing faster and more profitable than investors assume.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“It’s going to be a healthier, more profitable business as we set that foundation for much more balanced growth as we go forward in China,” Friend said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

They’re also worried that its move of building data centers for major customers such as OpenAI will result in a fundamentally less profitable business model.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Poolman says the goal is to have "more than 100 worldwide", however, he will not be drawn on whether the facilities are yet profitable.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

They had the essential feature of a Ponzi scheme: To maintain the fiction that they were profitable enterprises, they needed more and more capital to create more and more subprime loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

profitable

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