Synonyms for unprofitable
ʌnˈprɒf ɪ tə bəlun·prof·itable

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1. unprofitableadjective

   Antonyms:
   profitable

2. unprofitableadjective

   Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.

   Antonyms:
   profitable

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1. unprofitable

   Vain (Latin vanus, empty) keeps the etymological idea through all changes of meaning; a vain endeavor is empty of result, or of adequate power to produce a result, a vain pretension is empty or destitute of support, a vain person has a conceit that is empty or destitute of adequate cause or reason. That which is bootless, fruitless, or profitless fails to accomplish any valuable result; that which is abortive, ineffectual, or unavailing fails to accomplish a result that it was, or was supposed to be, adapted to accomplish. That which is useless, futile, or vain is inherently incapable of accomplishing a specified result. Useless, in the widest sense, signifies not of use for any valuable purpose, and is thus closely similar to valueless and worthless. Fruitless is more final than ineffectual, as applying to the sum or harvest of endeavor. That which is useless lacks actual fitness for a purpose; that which is vain lacks imaginable fitness. Compare VACANT; OSTENTATION; PRIDE.

   Compare synonyms for UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthless

   Antonyms:
   adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, expedient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy

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1. unprofitable

   Synonyms:
   useless, bootless, futile, fruitless

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1. unprofitableadjective

   producing little or no profit or gain

   "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable"

   Antonyms:
   paying, bankable, lucrative, remunerative, moneymaking, juicy, economic, gainful, paid, fat, profitable

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1. unprofitableadjective

   Synonyms:
   profitless, fruitless, bootless, useless, worthless, unremunerating, futile, unserviceable, unproductive, unfruitful, barren

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1. unprofitableadjective

   Synonyms:
   unremunerative, profitless, futile, fruitless, unavailing

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1. List of paraphrases for "unprofitable":

   uneconomic, non-profitable, unviable, uneconomical, profitable, loss-making

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How to use unprofitable in a sentence?

1. James Fenimore Cooper:

   Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

2. Christopher Wong:

   Management is continuing with their rationalization process and no unprofitable sacred cows have been left untouched.

3. Jeffrey Sachs:

   Everybody needs to understand that policies are going to change to make it unprofitable if you wreck the planet, those companies that continue exploring and developing fossil fuel resources for which there is no safe use are going to pay a very heavy cost for that.

4. Ronald Lam:

   Many airlines have already reduced or cut their services to and from Hong Kong as many routes have become unprofitable due to declining passenger numbers.

5. Barclays Africa analyst Peter Worthington:

   For example, at current prices over half of South Africa's platinum production is unprofitable. This will likely weigh on mineral exports, eroding some of the benefit from lower oil prices.