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Definition of profitable : Profitableness.

Synonyms:

healing, money-spinning, bankable, friendly, economic, therapeutic, paying, get, paid, essential, for-profit, restorative, at a premium, well-balanced, money-making, fat, salutary, cost-effective, propitious, profit-making, sensible, help, wholesome, benignant, juicy, beneficent, healthy, kindly, toward, benefic

gainful, successful, advantageous, good, helpful, better, useful, favorable, prosperous, improving, progressive, beneficial

constructive, prolific, fecund, parturient, fertile, fruitful, teeming, pregnant, lush, productive, bountiful, creative, executive

opulent, fortunate, prosperity, rich, wealthy, affluent

contributive, valuable, aiding, bringing in returns, sufficient, making money, paying out, effectual, rewarding, instrumental, self-sustaining, conducive, moneymaking, effective, assisting, paying well, paying its way, pragmatic, remunerative, serviceable, practical, in the black, sustaining, breadwinning, lucrative, to advantage

Usage examples:

• Might not a little advice be also profitable to man? - "The Jericho Road", W. Bion Adkins.
• The English carried it on, in competition with the Dutch, during the last and beginning of the present century: but it was too little profitable for them, in comparison with other branches of commerce open to them. - "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson.
• We know of no method of making all holes of exactly the same size that shall be commercially profitable. - "Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose.