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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For decades, fame seemed to be the only guarantee for a quick, splashy, and profitable home sale.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Early on, he realized that cotton wasn’t profitable, so he stopped growing it.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Gas engine maker Innio, profitable in 2025, sees 61% of its equipment order backlog from rapidly growing data center customers.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

“The UAW is telling GM, we are going to take aim at some of your most profitable vehicles,” Browne said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The catastrophic death toll in the New World was part of a profitable system that was far from unique.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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