different between favourable vs profitable
favourable
English
Alternative forms
- favorable (American)
Etymology
Middle English, from Old French favorable, from Latin favorabilis, from favor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fe?v(?)??b?l/
Adjective
favourable (comparative more favourable, superlative most favourable)
- Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- Synonyms: approving, encouraging, good, pleasing
- Antonyms: bad, discouraging, displeasing, unfavorable
- Useful or helpful.
- Synonyms: advantageous, helpful, useful
- Antonym: unhelpful
- Convenient or at a suitable time; opportune.
- Synonyms: convenient, good, handy, opportune, suitable
- Antonyms: bad, inconvenient, inopportune, unsuitable
- Auspicious or lucky.
- Synonyms: auspicious, fortunate, lucky
- Antonyms: inauspicious, unfavourable, unlucky
Derived terms
- unfavourable
Related terms
- favour
- favourably
Translations
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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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