English > profitable: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | 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 |