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disprofit

disprofit verb: to be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Verb

disprofit (third-person singular simple present disprofits, present participle disprofiting, simple past and past participle disprofited)

  1. (obsolete) To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Noun

disprofit

  1. Loss; damage.
    • And whereas he sought profit, he fell into double disprofit, that neither with good men he could avoid secret shame1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
    • Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness govern the dative.1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars

Forms of disprofit

third-person singular presentdisprofits
present participledisprofiting
past participledisprofited
pastdisprofited

Origin of disprofit

From dis- + profit.

Questions about disprofit

What does disprofit mean?
Disprofit means to be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.
What part of speech is disprofit?
Disprofit can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of disprofit?
The past tense of disprofit is disprofited.

Words near disprofit in the dictionary

  1. disprobative
  2. disprofess
  3. disprofessed
  4. disprofesses
  5. disprofessing
  6. disprofit
  7. disprofitable
  8. disprofited
  9. disprofiting
  10. disprofits
  11. disproof

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