profitlessly

1. 1.

   without gain or profit

   Synonymsunprofitablygainlessly

Questions about profitlessly

What does profitlessly mean?

profitlessly means "without gain or profit".

How many syllables are in profitlessly?

profitlessly has 4 syllables: pro-fit-les-sly. The stress falls on "fit".

What is another word for profitlessly?

Close synonyms include unprofitably, gainlessly. 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.

Is profitlessly a common word?

profitlessly 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.