profitable as an adjective: - 1
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profitable
adjective
1 profitable
Yielding material gain or profit.
Roget 168:
productive,
prolific;
teeming,
teemful†;
fertile,
fruitful,
frugiferous†,
fruit-bearing;
fecund,
luxuriant;
pregnant,
uberous†.
procreant†,
procreative;
generative,
life-giving,
spermatic;
multiparous;
omnific†,
propagable.
parturient
etc.
(producing)
161;
profitable
etc.
(useful)
644.
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Roget 810:
receiving,
received
etc.
v.;
profitable
etc.
(gainful)
775.
Roget 775:
acquiring,
acquired
etc.
v.;
profitable,
advantageous,
gainful,
remunerative,
paying,
lucrative.
Roget 648:
harmless,
hurtless†;
unobnoxious†,
innocuous,
innocent,
inoffensive.
beneficial,
valuable,
of value;
serviceable
etc.
(useful)
644;
advantageous,
edifying,
profitable;
salutary
etc.
(healthful)
656.
favorable;
propitious
etc.
(hope-giving)
858;
fair.
good,
good as gold;
excellent;
better;
superior
etc.
33;
above par;
nice,
fine;
genuine
etc.
(true)
494.
best,
choice,
select,
picked,
elect,
recherche,
rare,
priceless;
unparagoned†,
unparalleled
etc.
(supreme)
33;
superlatively
etc.
33;
good;
bully [Slang],
crackajack [Slang],
giltedged;
superfine,
superexcellent†;
of the first water;
first-rate,
first-class;
high-wrought,
exquisite,
very best,
crack,
prime,
tiptop,
capital,
cardinal;
standard
etc.
(perfect)
650;
inimitable.
admirable,
estimable;
praiseworthy
etc.
(approve)
931;
pleasing
etc.
829;
couleur de rose [Fr.],
precious,
of great price;
costly
etc.
(dear)
814;
worth its weight in gold,
worth a Jew's eye;
priceless,
invaluable,
inestimable,
precious as the apple of the eye.
tolerable
etc.
(not very good)
651;
up to the mark,
unexceptionable,
unobjectionable;
satisfactory,
tidy.
in good condition,
in fair condition;
fresh;
sound
etc.
(perfect)
650.
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Roget 644:
useful;
of use
etc.
n.;
serviceable,
proficuous†,
good for;
subservient
etc.
(instrumental)
631;
conducive
etc.
(tending)
176;
subsidiary
etc.
(helping)
707.
advantageous
etc.
(beneficial)
648;
profitable,
gainful,
remunerative,
worth one's salt;
valuable;
prolific
etc.
(productive)
168.
adequate;
efficient,
efficacious;
effective,
effectual;
expedient
etc.
646.
applicable,
available,
ready,
handy,
at hand,
tangible;
commodious,
adaptable;
of all work.
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Dutch: rendabel, winstgevend
Polish: opłacalny, intratny, dochodowy, zyskowny
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