Adjective profitable has 4 senses
- profitable - yielding material gain or profit; "profitable speculation on the stock market"
Antonyms: unprofitable, dead, idle, lean, marginal, unremunerative
- profitable - promoting benefit or gain; "a profitable meeting to resolve difficulties"
Antonyms: disadvantageous, harmful (indirect, via advantageous)
- profitable - providing profit; "a profitable conversation"
Antonym: unrewarding (indirect, via rewarding)
- fruitful, profitable - productive of profit; "a profitable enterprise"; "a fruitful meeting"
Antonym: unproductive (indirect, via productive)
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