profitable

1. 1.

   yielding material gain or profit

   “profitable speculation on the stock market”

   Antonymsunprofitable

   Similarbankablefatgainfuleconomiclucrative

Questions about profitable

What does profitable mean?

profitable means "yielding material gain or profit".

How many syllables are in profitable?

profitable has 4 syllables: pro-fi-ta-ble. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑfətəbəl/.

What is the opposite of profitable?

The recorded antonyms are unprofitable.

Is profitable a common word?

profitable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.