profitably

1. 1.

   in a productive way

   “they worked together productively for two years”

   Synonymsproductivelyfruitfully

   Antonymsunprofitably

Questions about profitably

What does profitably mean?

profitably means "in a productive way".

How many syllables are in profitably?

profitably has 4 syllables: pro-fi-ta-bly. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɑfətəbli/.

What is another word for profitably?

Close synonyms include productively, fruitfully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of profitably?

The recorded antonyms are unprofitably.

Is profitably a common word?

profitably is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.