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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[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.

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Prof′it-a-ble-ness

Noun.

–

Prof′it-a-bly

adv.

Adj.

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; as a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.

Useful; advantageous.

What was so profitable to the empire, became fatal to the emperor.