unprofitable
adj/ʌnˈpɹɑf.ɪ.təbl̩/US/ʌnˈpɹɒf.ɪ.təbl̩/UK
Etymology
From un- + profitable.
- derived from profitable
Definitions
Not making a profit.
- Being a professional poet is a nice job, albeit unprofitable.
- The undermediators are not required, have nothing properly to do, no peculiar duty to perform; but are an unprofitable or inutile set of beings sitting down and looking at each other through want of other occupation.
- Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]
A person or thing that fails to make a profit.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA