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adjective
- 1. without benefit or advantage; pointless: "a long and profitless public row"
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Definition of profitless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adjective. without profit or reward. “"let us have no part in profitless quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower”. synonyms: unrewarding. not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction.
1. An advantageous gain or return; benefit. 2. Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value. v. prof·it·ed, prof·it·ing, prof·its. v.intr.
Synonyms for PROFITLESS: unsuccessful, futile, useless, unprofitable, fruitless, unavailing, unproductive, vain; Antonyms of PROFITLESS: profitable, successful, efficient, effective, fruitful, productive, virtuous, deadly
The earliest known use of the adjective profitless is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for profitless is from 1574, in the writing of Edward Hake, lawyer and satirist. profitless is formed within English, by derivation.
profitless. 1 ENTRIES FOUND: profitless (adjective) profitless / ˈ prɑːfətləs/ adjective. Britannica Dictionary definition of PROFITLESS. : not making a profit or producing a useful result. a profitless company. a profitless argument.
Adjective. [edit] profitless (comparative more profitless, superlative most profitless) not yielding profit. Derived terms. [edit] profitlessness. Categories: English terms suffixed with -less. English lemmas. English adjectives. English terms with quotations.
: the excess of returns over expenditure in a transaction or series of transactions. especially : the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost. 3. : net income usually for a given period of time. 4. : the ratio of profit for a given year to the amount of capital invested or to the value of sales. 5.
profitless meaning, definition, what is profitless: not making a profit, or not useful to do...: Learn more.
Profitless definition: Not yielding <a>profit.</a>.
