PROFITLESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does profitless mean? • PROFITLESS (adjective)
The adjective PROFITLESS has 1 sense:
1. without profit or reward
Familiarity information: PROFITLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROFITLESS (adjective)
Meaning:
Without profit or reward
Synonyms:
profitless; unprofitable
Context examples:
let us have no part in profitless quarrels / How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
Similar:
unrewarding (not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction)
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