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Word entry · 12 letters

unprofitable

Best crossword clue

"In the red"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ʌnˈpɹɑf.ɪ.təbl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted abefilnoprtuStarts with UEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. producing little or no profit or gain

Word origin

From un- + profitable.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]

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