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profitable Definition

prof·it·able (präf′it ə bəl)

adjective

yielding profit, gain, or benefit

profitable Related Forms

prof′·it·abil′·ity noun or prof′·it·able·ness prof′·it·ably adverb

profitable Synonyms

profitable

modif.

lucrative, useful, sustaining, self-sustaining, aiding, remunerative, beneficial, gainful, advantageous, paying, successful, favorable, assisting, productive, serviceable, valuable, contributive, conducive, instrumental, practical, pragmatic, effective, to advantage, effectual, sufficient, paying its way, bringing in returns, making money, paying well, paying out*, in the black*; see also helpful 1.

Antonyms unprofitable*, unsuccessful*, unproductive.

profitable Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: Charges will be brought in, debts written off, staff laid off, all to make the system profitable for big business.

Modifies a noun

  • niche: Online Gold Finder Online Gold Finder will help you find hidden profitable online niches in seconds.
  • sideline: It transpires that his Father, who works for a removals company, has made a profitable sideline tipping off the burglars.
  • growth: We have 10 years of profitable growth behind us.
  • trader: Profitable stock traders have a better way. + $ Stock trading is not a job.
  • venture: Sufficient demand for the Internet exists even in the poorest countries to make it a viable, indeed a highly profitable, venture.
  • enterprise: For the bookmakers, who negotiated that position, that is a profitable enterprise.

Modifying Another Word

  • amazingly: I soon realized that being able to help business owners to get results from these optimization methods and strategies could also be amazingly profitable.
  • hugely: I think the Queen herself is probably hugely profitable.
  • highly: The Net gives you access to a highly profitable market.
  • marginally: We have heard several anecdotal stories that marginally profitable attractions are closing at the end of the 1998 season.
  • immensely: It turned to opium for a solution, which proved to be immensely profitable.
  • commercially: It is essential to make news websites commercially profitable, a question of complement not compromise.

Infinitive complement

sell: Is it profitable to sell data on to others?

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: Secret Of Success - this premium rate telephone service has proved fantastically profitable for one important reason.
  • remain: The report highlights some interesting trends which the design industry needs to address to remain profitable.
  • become: A business plan is being drawn up, in which the magazine aims to become profitable in year three.
  • stay: It would defeat Royal Mail's efforts to stay profitable.

Preposition: for

  • teaching: That is indeed what Scripture says of itself: " All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching " ( 2 Tim.
  • farmer: Growing opium poppies is extremely profitable for poverty-stricken Afghan farmers.