profitable
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Profitable \Prof"it*a*ble\, a. [F. profitable.]
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative;
useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable
trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
[1913 Webster]
What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to
the
emperor. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster] -- {Prof"it*a*ble*ness}, n. --
{Prof"it*a*bly}, adv.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "profitable":
advantageous, advisable, aidful, appropriate, auspicious, banausic,
becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, braw,
breadwinning, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, compensating,
compensative, compensatory, conducive, congruous, constructive,
contributory, convenient, decent, desirable, effective, elegant,
estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, fat, favorable,
feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous,
fruitful, furthersome, gainful, good, good for, goodly, grand,
happy, healthy, helpful, kind, laudable, likely, lucrative, meet,
moneymaking, nice, noble, of value, opportune, paying, pleasant,
politic, positive, productive, proper, recommendable, regal,
remedial, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retributive,
retributory, rewardful, rewarding, right, royal, salutary,
satisfying, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable,
sound, splendid, suitable, therapeutic, timely, to be desired,
useful, utilitarian, valid, valuable, very good, virtuous,
well-paying, well-spent, well-timed, wise, worthwhile,
yielding a return
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