profitable

English

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Adjective

profitable (comparative more profitable, superlative most profitable)

1. Producing a profit.

   "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish" - Aeschylus

Synonyms

• lucrative

Antonyms

• unprofitable

Derived terms

• profitableness

Translations

producing profit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (profitable, in terms of money) 可獲利的, 可获利的 (kě huòlì de), 有利可圖 (cmn), 有利可图 (cmn) (yǒulìkětú), (beneficial) 有益 (cmn) (yǒuyì)

• Czech: ziskový (cs) m
• Dutch: winstgevend (nl)
• Esperanto: profitodona (eo), profitebla (eo)
• Estonian: kasumlik (et)
• Finnish: tuottava (fi), tuottoisa (fi), kannattava (fi)
• French: profitable (fr)

• German: gewinnbringend (de), profitabel (de), lukrativ (de)
• Hungarian: nyereséges (hu)
• Japanese: 有益な (ja) (ゆうえきな, yūeki-na), 利益になる (ja) (りえきになる, rieki-ni naru)
• Polish: dochodowy (pl)
• Russian: вы́годный (ru) (výgodnyj), при́быльный (ru) (príbyl'nyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: isplativ (sh), unosan (sh)
• Spanish: lucrativo (es), ventajoso (es)

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French

Etymology

From profiter +‎ -able

Adjective

profitable (masculine and feminine, plural profitables)

1. profitable