What are some opposite words for profitable?
Antonyms for profitable
ˈprɒf ɪ tə bəlprof·itable
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term profitable.
Wiktionary
profitableadjective
Antonyms:
unprofitableSynonyms:
lucrativeprofitableadjective
Producing a profit.
Synonyms:
lucrativeAntonyms:
unprofitable
English Synonyms and Antonyms
profitable
Antonyms:
bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesomeSynonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
profitable
Antonyms:
unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental, unbeneficial, unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerativeSynonyms:
gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful, productive, remunerative, lucrative
Princeton's WordNet
profitableadjective
yielding material gain or profit
"profitable speculation on the stock market"
Antonyms:
dead, marginal, lean, unprofitable, idle, unremunerative
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
profitableadjective
Antonyms:
unprofitableSynonyms:
remunerative, lucrative, gainful, beneficial
How to use profitable in a sentence?
Few have a convincing reply to the question of how they're going to make the business profitable.
The last three years of the '90s bull market were very profitable but very volatile, we may be looking at a period like that again.
(Zappin) has to acquire a lot of profitable companies and then grow top line revenue.
The most profitable ... is energy efficiency.
Corporates are sound, flooded with cash and generally speaking profitable, Two risks in buying corporate assets are that the central banks disappoint, which we don't expect, or that growth disappoints, which we also don't expect.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#841 | bad | |
#1700 | dead | |
#3009 | evil | |
#8525 | lean | |
#9013 | idle | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#9718 | foul | |
#10226 | useless | |
#10437 | profitable | |
#11024 | marginal | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#15690 | vain | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#21797 | undesirable | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48116 | fruitless | |
#48348 | unproductive | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#55539 | unprofitable | |
#84995 | ruinous | |
#96594 | disadvantageous | |
#101921 | unwholesome | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#177128 | perverting | |
#196741 | unhealthful | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#264537 | pestilential |
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