Unprofitable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unprofitable \Unprofitable\
     See {profitable}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unprofitable


       adj 1: producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned
              by mining companies as unprofitable" [ant: {profitable}]
       2: not worth using [syn: {inutile}]
       3: without profit or reward; "let us have no part in profitless
          quarrels"- D.D.Eisenhower; "How weary, flat, stale, and
          unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world"-
          Shakespeare [syn: {profitless}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "unprofitable":
     abortive, barren, bootless, deleterious, detrimental,
     disadvantageous, disserviceable, fruitless, futile, gainless,
     harmful, ineffective, inefficient, injurious, losing,
     nonremunerative, otiose, pointless, prejudicial, profitless,
     purposeless, rewardless, sterile, unadvantageous, unavailing,
     unfavorable, unfruitful, unproductive, unremunerative, unrewarding,
     useless, worthless