The term "profitable" refers to something that yields a profit, advantage or benefit. Its antonyms are words that represent the opposite of this concept, such as unprofitable, wasteful or disadvantageous. If a business or investment is unprofitable, it means it is not making money or yielding a positive return. Similarly, if a decision or action is deemed disadvantageous, it implies that it was not a wise move and likely resulted in a loss or harm. Conversely, the term wasteful refers to expending resources unnecessarily, leading to a reduction in profit or value. These antonyms provide a helpful contrast to the word "profitable," allowing us to describe situations where the desired outcome is not achieved.

What are the antonyms for Profitable?

• adj.

  • abortive
  • in effectual
  ,
  • in-effectual
  ,
  • mis carried
  ,
  • more failed
  ,
  • more miscarried
  ,
  • un availing
  ,
  • un-availing
  .
  • advantageous; money-making
  • disadvantageous
  ,
  • fruitless
  ,
  • impotent
  ,
  • incapable
  ,
  • unfruitful
  ,
  • unhelpful
  ,
  • unproductive
  ,
  • unprofitable
  ,
  • unskilled
  ,
  • useless
  ,
  • valueless
  ,
  • worthless
  .
  • bad
  • beastlier
  ,
  • beastliest
  ,
  • bottom out
  ,
  • conscience stricken
  ,
  • consciencestricken
  ,
  • cruddier
  ,
  • cruddiest
  ,
  • cruddy
  ,
  • de pressed
  ,
  • de-pressed
  ,
  • diddlier
  ,
  • diddliest
  ,
  • dis agreeable
  ,
  • dis eased
  ,
  • dis obedient
  ,
  • dis pleasing
  ,
  • dis satisfactory
  ,
  • dis tressed
  ,
  • dis-agreeable
  ,
  • dis-eased
  ,
  • dis-obedient
  ,
  • dis-pleasing
  ,
  • dis-satisfactory
  ,
  • dis-tressed
  ,
  • godawful
  ,
  • grodier
  ,
  • grody
  ,
  • ill behaved
  ,
  • ill-behaved
  ,
  • illbehaved
  ,
  • in adequate
  ,
  • in correct
  ,
  • in pain
  ,
  • in tense
  ,
  • in tenser
  ,
  • in-adequate
  ,
  • in-tense
  ,
  • in-tenser
  ,
  • in-tensest
  ,
  • junkier
  ,
  • junkiest
  ,
  • mis behaving
  ,
  • mis-behaving
  ,
  • more downer
  ,
  • more garbage
  ,
  • more ill behaved
  ,
  • more ill-behaved
  ,
  • more misbehaving
  ,
  • more troubling
  ,
  • most downer
  ,
  • most garbage
  ,
  • most godawful
  ,
  • most ill behaved
  ,
  • most ill-behaved
  ,
  • most illbehaved
  ,
  • most misbehaving
  ,
  • most troubling
  ,
  • not good
  ,
  • pitser
  ,
  • pitsest
  ,
  • re probate
  ,
  • re-probate
  ,
  • ruinous
  ,
  • sub standard
  ,
  • sub-standard
  ,
  • the pits
  ,
  • un acceptable
  ,
  • un favorable
  ,
  • un fortunate
  ,
  • un happier
  ,
  • un happiest
  ,
  • un happy
  ,
  • un healthier
  ,
  • un healthiest
  ,
  • un healthy
  ,
  • un pleasant
  ,
  • un satisfactory
  ,
  • un-acceptable
  ,
  • un-favorable
  ,
  • un-fortunate
  ,
  • un-happy
  ,
  • un-healthier
  ,
  • un-healthiest
  ,
  • un-healthy
  ,
  • un-pleasant
  ,
  • un-satisfactory
  ,
  • up set
  ,
  • up-set
  .
  • barren
  • Infecund
  ,
  • Unbearing
  ,
  • de sert
  ,
  • de solate
  ,
  • de-sert
  ,
  • de-solate
  ,
  • in fecund
  ,
  • in fertile
  ,
  • in-fecund
  ,
  • in-fertile
  ,
  • more infecund
  ,
  • more profitless
  ,
  • more unbearing
  ,
  • more uncultivable
  ,
  • more uninspiring
  ,
  • more unrewarding
  ,
  • most infecund
  ,
  • most profitless
  ,
  • most unbearing
  ,
  • most uncultivable
  ,
  • most uninspiring
  ,
  • most unrewarding
  ,
  • profitless
  ,
  • un bearing
  ,
  • un cultivable
  ,
  • un fertile
  ,
  • un inspiring
  ,
  • un rewarding
  ,
  • un-bearing
  ,
  • un-cultivable
  ,
  • un-fertile
  ,
  • un-inspiring
  ,
  • un-rewarding
  ,
  • uncultivable
  ,
  • unfertile
  ,
  • uninspiring
  ,
  • unrewarding
  ,
  • wastest
  .
  • damaging, disadvantageous
  • detrimental
  .
  • detrimental
  • mischievous
  ,
  • pre judicial
  ,
  • pre-judicial
  .
  • failing
  • unsuccessful
  .
  • failing to achieve a goal
  • abortive
  .
  • fruitless
  • Gainless
  ,
  • in vain
  ,
  • ineffective
  ,
  • more gainless
  ,
  • more ineffective
  ,
  • more unprolific
  ,
  • most gainless
  ,
  • most unprolific
  ,
  • no avail
  ,
  • no effect
  ,
  • spinning one wheels
  ,
  • spinning one's wheels
  ,
  • spinning ones wheels
  ,
  • spinning wheels
  ,
  • sterile
  ,
  • to no avail
  ,
  • to no effect
  ,
  • un available
  ,
  • un prolific
  ,
  • un-available
  ,
  • un-prolific
  ,
  • unprolific
  .
  • futile
  • Resultless
  ,
  • in sufficient
  ,
  • in-sufficient
  ,
  • insufficient
  ,
  • more impracticable
  ,
  • more resultless
  ,
  • most resultless
  ,
  • no dice
  ,
  • no purpose
  ,
  • on a treadmill
  ,
  • out the window
  ,
  • out window
  ,
  • save breath
  ,
  • save one breath
  ,
  • save one's breath
  ,
  • save ones breath
  ,
  • to no purpose
  ,
  • trifling
  ,
  • trivial
  ,
  • un important
  ,
  • un needed
  ,
  • un substantial
  ,
  • un-important
  ,
  • un-needed
  ,
  • un-real
  ,
  • un-substantial
  .
  • harmful
  • dis advantageous
  ,
  • dis-advantageous
  ,
  • malefic
  ,
  • more corroding
  ,
  • more crippling
  ,
  • more harassing
  ,
  • more malefic
  ,
  • more undermining
  ,
  • most corroding
  ,
  • most crippling
  ,
  • most harassing
  ,
  • most malefic
  ,
  • most undermining
  ,
  • un safe
  ,
  • un safer
  ,
  • un safest
  ,
  • un-safe
  ,
  • un-safer
  ,
  • un-safest
  ,
  • un-wholesome
  ,
  • under mining
  ,
  • under-mining
  .
  • hopeless, pointless
  • futile
  .
  • ineffective
  • anti climactic
  ,
  • anti-climactic
  ,
  • anticlimactic
  ,
  • de feasible
  ,
  • de-feasible
  ,
  • defeasible
  ,
  • forceless
  ,
  • in decisive
  ,
  • in effective
  ,
  • in efficient
  ,
  • in nocuous
  ,
  • in-decisive
  ,
  • in-effective
  ,
  • in-efficient
  ,
  • in-nocuous
  ,
  • more anticlimactic
  ,
  • more defeasible
  ,
  • more emasculate
  ,
  • more forceless
  ,
  • more neutralized
  ,
  • more slack spined
  ,
  • more slack-spined
  ,
  • more slackspined
  ,
  • most anticlimactic
  ,
  • most defeasible
  ,
  • most emasculate
  ,
  • most forceless
  ,
  • most neutralized
  ,
  • most slack-spined
  ,
  • most slackspined
  ,
  • no go
  ,
  • no way
  ,
  • not effective
  ,
  • slack spined
  ,
  • slackspined
  ,
  • un abler
  ,
  • un ablest
  ,
  • un-abler
  ,
  • un-ablest
  .
  • ineffectual, valueless
  • null
  .
  • injurious, hurtful
  • harmful
  .
  • meaningless
  • Purportless
  ,
  • Unpurposed
  ,
  • doesnt cut it
  ,
  • doublespeak
  ,
  • doubletalk
  ,
  • good for nothing
  ,
  • hollow
  ,
  • in consequential
  ,
  • in significant
  ,
  • in substantial
  ,
  • in-consequential
  ,
  • in-substantial
  ,
  • more double-talk
  ,
  • more doublespeak
  ,
  • more good for nothing
  ,
  • more nothing
  ,
  • more purportless
  ,
  • more unmeaning
  ,
  • more unpurposed
  ,
  • most double talk
  ,
  • most double-talk
  ,
  • most doublespeak
  ,
  • most doubletalk
  ,
  • most good for nothing
  ,
  • most good-for-nothing
  ,
  • most nothing
  ,
  • most purportless
  ,
  • most unmeaning
  ,
  • most unpurposed
  ,
  • un meaning
  ,
  • un-meaning
  ,
  • un-purposed
  ,
  • unmeaning
  .
  • misspent
  • down drain
  ,
  • mis applied
  ,
  • mis spent
  ,
  • mis-applied
  ,
  • mis-spent
  ,
  • more misapplied
  ,
  • more squandered
  ,
  • most misapplied
  ,
  • most squandered
  ,
  • thrown away
  .
  • noun
  • bad
  ,
  • damaging
  ,
  • marginal
  ,
  • unfavorable
  ,
  • unfriendly
  .
  • null
  • Non-existent
  ,
  • characterless
  ,
  • in efficacious
  ,
  • in operative
  ,
  • in valid
  ,
  • in-efficacious
  ,
  • in-operative
  ,
  • in-valid
  ,
  • more unsanctioned
  ,
  • most characterless
  ,
  • most unsanctioned
  ,
  • non existent
  ,
  • null void
  ,
  • un-sanctioned
  ,
  • unsanctioned
  .
  • pointless
  • around circles
  ,
  • around in circles
  ,
  • going nowhere
  ,
  • in vicious circle
  ,
  • more nongermane
  ,
  • most nongermane
  ,
  • needle haystack
  ,
  • needle in haystack
  ,
  • non germane
  ,
  • non-germane
  ,
  • nongermane
  ,
  • not pertinent
  ,
  • on treadmill
  ,
  • re-mote
  ,
  • un interesting
  ,
  • un necessary
  ,
  • un-necessary
  .
  • ridiculous, senseless
  • pointless
  .
  • sterile
  • anti septic
  ,
  • anti-septic
  ,
  • de contaminated
  ,
  • de-contaminated
  ,
  • dis infected
  ,
  • dis-infected
  ,
  • germ free
  ,
  • germ-free
  ,
  • germfree
  ,
  • more decontaminated
  ,
  • more disinfected
  ,
  • more germ free
  ,
  • more germ-free
  ,
  • more germfree
  ,
  • more pasteurized
  ,
  • more septic
  ,
  • more uninfected
  ,
  • most decontaminated
  ,
  • most disinfected
  ,
  • most germ free
  ,
  • most germ-free
  ,
  • most germfree
  ,
  • most pasteurized
  ,
  • most septic
  ,
  • pasteurized
  ,
  • septic
  ,
  • un infected
  ,
  • un-infected
  ,
  • uninfected
  .
  • thankless
  • dis tasteful
  ,
  • dis-tasteful
  ,
  • more unrecognized
  ,
  • most unrecognized
  ,
  • most unreturned
  ,
  • not worth it
  ,
  • un grateful
  ,
  • un recognized
  ,
  • un requited
  ,
  • un returned
  ,
  • un-grateful
  ,
  • un-recognized
  ,
  • un-returned
  ,
  • unrecognized
  .
  • unable to support growth
  • barren
  .
  • unappreciated
  • thankless
  .
  • unfruitful
  • acarpous
  ,
  • more nonproductive
  ,
  • most acarpous
  ,
  • most nonproductive
  ,
  • non productive
  ,
  • non-productive
  ,
  • nonproductive
  ,
  • un fruitful
  ,
  • un-fruitful
  .
  • unproductive
  • un productive
  ,
  • un-productive
  .
  • unprofitable
  • frustaneous
  ,
  • more frustaneous
  ,
  • more nonprofit
  ,
  • more unhelpful
  ,
  • more unlucrative
  ,
  • more unremunerative
  ,
  • most frustaneous
  ,
  • most nonprofit
  ,
  • most unhelpful
  ,
  • most unlucrative
  ,
  • most unremunerative
  ,
  • non profit
  ,
  • non-profit
  ,
  • nonprofit
  ,
  • un helpful
  ,
  • un lucrative
  ,
  • un profitable
  ,
  • un remunerative
  ,
  • un-lucrative
  ,
  • un-profitable
  ,
  • un-remunerative
  ,
  • unlucrative
  ,
  • unremunerative
  .
  • unsuccessful
  • ill fated
  ,
  • illfated
  ,
  • more foiled
  ,
  • more thwarted
  ,
  • most foiled
  ,
  • most thwarted
  ,
  • un luckier
  ,
  • un luckiest
  ,
  • un lucky
  ,
  • un successful
  ,
  • un-luckier
  ,
  • un-lucky
  ,
  • un-successful
  .
  • unusable
  • un usable
  ,
  • un-usable
  .
  • useless
  • counter productive
  ,
  • counter-productive
  ,
  • counterproductive
  ,
  • in competent
  ,
  • in utile
  ,
  • in-competent
  ,
  • in-utile
  ,
  • more nonfunctional
  ,
  • more unfunctional
  ,
  • more unusuable
  ,
  • most nonfunctional
  ,
  • most unusuable
  ,
  • no good
  ,
  • non functional
  ,
  • non-functional
  ,
  • nonfunctional
  ,
  • of no use
  ,
  • scrapper
  ,
  • scrappest
  ,
  • un functional
  ,
  • un workable
  ,
  • un-functional
  ,
  • un-workable
  ,
  • unfunctional
  ,
  • unusable
  ,
  • unusuable
  .
  • wasted
  • Misspent
  .
  • worthless
  • noaccount
  ,
  • nogood
  ,
  • un essential
  ,
  • un-essential
  .

Usage examples for Profitable

Famous quotes with Profitable

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

  Aeschylus
• The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

  Aeschylus
• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  Ralph Allen
• We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network.

  Gerard Arpey
• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

  Mikhail Bakunin

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