Adjective:

घाटेवाला, बेफ़यादा, हानिकर, लाभहीन,

unprofitable's Usage Examples:

The unprofitable extension of the telegraphs has largely contributed to the loss.

The Belgian state telegraphs were started in 1850 and were at first very profitable, but for the years 1866-9 they yielded an average profit of only 2.8 per cent., and subsequently failed to earn operating expenses, the reasons for the steady decline of the profits being the opening of relatively unprofitable lines and offices, increases in wages, and a diminution in growth of the foreign and transit messages which had constituted the most profitable part of the whole business.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

unprofitable servant.

It would be a very unprofitable pretext for murder.

I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life."

Htk., but of unprofitable land a Td.

We will avoid war because it is unprofitable; and while that is not a moral reason, any reason that brings peace is fine by me.

Under the guidance of Pericles the Athenians renounced the unprofitable rivalry with Sparta and Persia, and devoted themselves to the consolidation and judicious extension of their maritime influence.

The post was unprofitable, and Wagner's life at this period was very unsettled.

Synonyms:

unremunerative, lean, unsuccessful, useless, marginal, dead, unproductive, idle,

Antonyms:

work, successful, productive, useful, profitable,