Profitable and Useless

Profitable

Profitable adjective - Yielding material gain or profit.
Usage example: profitable speculation on the stock market

Useless is an antonym for profitable in topics: beneficial, advantageous.

Useless

Useless adjective - Producing no results.
Usage example: a useless attempt to reach an agreement

Profitable is an antonym for useless in not working topic.

Nearby Words: use, useful, uselessly

Both words in one sentence

  • Vendor Trash Turning a few hundred of those useless quartzite rocks lying around into A Present From Boatmurdered +quartzite mugs+ can be very profitable.
    Source: Vendor Trash
  • Literature / The Abandon Trilogy Reed Richards Is Useless: Pierce's dad is perplexed about why John doesn't use his powers, namely teleportation, to run a profitable business.
  • Copy Protection However, this was also turned on its head when the developers later admitted it was designed to be a nostalgic nod to old-school games, and it was admittedly useless as copy protection (seeing as the game was massively profitable anyway).
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