profitable

English

Etymology

From Old French profitable.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

profitable (comparative more profitable, superlative most profitable)

1. Producing a profit.
   • Aeschylus

     It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27: 

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing" […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Synonyms

• lucrative

Antonyms

• unprofitable

Derived terms

• profitableness

Translations

producing profit

• Catalan: profitós, rendible
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: ziskový m
• Dutch: winstgevend
• Esperanto: profitodona, profitebla
• Estonian: kasumlik
• Finnish: tuottava, tuottoisa (fi), kannattava (fi)
• French: profitable (fr), fructueux (fr)
• German: gewinnbringend, profitabel (de), lukrativ (de)

• Hungarian: nyereséges (hu)
• Italian: redditizio, fruttifero (it), remunerativo
• 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)
• Maori: whaihua
• Polish: dochodowy (pl)
• Portuguese: lucrativo (pt)
• Russian: вы́годный (ru) (výgodnyj), при́быльный (ru) (príbyl'nyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: isplativ, unosan
• Spanish: lucrativo, ventajoso
• Swedish: lönsam (sv)

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French

Etymology

From profiter +‎ -able

Adjective

profitable (masculine and feminine, plural profitables)

1. profitable

External links

• “profitable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).