Meaning | producing little or no profit or gain. |
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Example | "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" |
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Narrower | dead, idle | not yielding a return |
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lean | not profitable or prosperous |
marginal | producing at a rate that barely covers production costs |
unremunerative | not yielding profit or recompense |
See also | unproductive | not producing or capable of producing |
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unsuccessful | not successful |
useless | Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully |
Opposite | profitable | Yielding material gain or profit |
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Spanish | desaventajado, infructuoso |
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Nouns | unprofitableness, unprofitability | the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit |
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Adverbs | unprofitably | in an unproductive manner |
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unprofitably | without gain or profit |