different between beneficial vs profitable
beneficial
English
Etymology
From Late Latin benefici?lis (“beneficial”), from Latin beneficium (“benefit, favor, kindness”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?n?f?sh'?l, IPA(key): /?b?n??f???l/
Adjective
beneficial (comparative more beneficial, superlative most beneficial)
- Helpful or good to something or someone.
- Relating to a benefice.
Synonyms
- (helpful or good): advantageous, behooveful (archaic), helpful, useful
- (relating to a benefice): usufructuary, usufructuous
Antonyms
- maleficial, nocuous, damaging, harmful (doing harm to someone)
- innocuous, undamaging, harmless (doing no harm; doing neither harm nor good)
Derived terms
- beneficialness
- beneficial owner
Translations
Noun
beneficial (plural beneficials)
- Something that is beneficial.
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- helpful or beneficial
profitable
English
Etymology
Old French profitable.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p??f?t?bl?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??f?t?bl?/
- Hyphenation: prof?it?a?ble
Adjective
profitable (comparative more profitable, superlative most profitable)
- Producing a profit.
- Beneficial, serviceable, of use.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
- I wylbe ferme and ?tabyll
And to yow ?eruyceabyll
And also prophytabyll
Yf ye be agreabyll
My propyr Be??e
To turne a gayne to me
- I wylbe ferme and ?tabyll
- 1953, ?Richmond Lattimore, Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound", in Greek Tragedies
- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
- c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:
Synonyms
- lucrative
- beneficial
Antonyms
- unprofitable
Derived terms
Translations
French
Etymology
From profiter +? -able
Adjective
profitable (plural profitables)
- profitable
Further reading
- “profitable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
profiter +? -able.
Adjective
profitable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular profitable)
- useful; usable; that one can make use of
Descendants
- ? English: profitable
- French: profitable
References
- profitable on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
profitable From the web:
- what profitable business can i start
- what profitable means
- what kind of profitable business can i start
- which profitable business to start
- what is a good profitable business to start
- what small profitable business can i start
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