profitableness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: profitableness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for profitableness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
profitableness n the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome Synonym(s): favorableness, favourableness, advantageousness, positivity, positiveness, profitableness Antonym(s): unfavorableness, unfavourableness the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit Synonym(s): profitableness, profitability, gainfulness, lucrativeness Antonym(s): unprofitability, unprofitableness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Profitable \Prof"itable\, a. [F. profitable.] Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. --Arbuthnot. -- {Prof"itableness}, n. -- {Prof"ita*bly}, adv.