English > profitable: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Yielding material gain or profit. |
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| Example | "profitable speculation on the stock market" |
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| Narrower | bankable | guaranteed to bring a profit |
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| economic | financially rewarding |
| fat, juicy | lucrative |
| gainful, paid, paying | Yielding a fair profit |
| lucrative, moneymaking, remunerative | producing a sizeable profit |
| See also | advantageous, favorable, favourable | Giving an advantage |
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| productive | producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) |
| rewarding | Providing personal satisfaction |
| useful, utile | Of use or service |
| Opposite | unprofitable | producing little or no profit or gain |
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| Spanish | lucrativo, provechoso, rentable, ventajoso |
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| Catalan | profitós, rendible |
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| Nouns | profitableness, profitability | the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit |
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| profitableness | the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome |