Profitless
[prɒfitlis]
Definition
(adj.) 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 .
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Definition
(a.) Without profit; unprofitable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Useless, worthless, fruitless, bootless, unprofitable, valueless, of no use.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PROFITABLE]
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Examples
- Ah, how dreary it seemed, how miserable, lonely and profitless! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As a general rule, political talk appears to me to be of all talk the most dreary and the most profitless. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Haste, Tars Tarkas, I urged, or we shall both go down to profitless defeat; I cannot hold them for ever alone. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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