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profitless

adj

Etymology

From profit + -less.

  1. derived from prōfectus
  2. derived from profit
  3. inherited from profit
  4. suffixed as profitless — “profit + less”

Definitions

  1. not yielding profit

    • I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at profitless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at profitless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at profitless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA