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proficuous

proficuous adjective: useful or profitable.

Adjective

proficuous (comparative more proficuous, superlative most proficuous)

  1. Useful or profitable.
    • Liquors distilled from them , are experienced very proficuous1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
    • […] the master for whom [a ritual service] is performed is exalted above the vulgar need of actually proficuous service on the part of his servants.1899, Thorstein Veblen, chapter 6, in The Theory of the Leisure Class […] , New York: Macmillan, →OCLC

Forms of proficuous

comparativemore proficuous
superlativemost proficuous

Origin of proficuous

Borrowed from Latin proficuus (“beneficial”).

Words formed from proficuous

Questions about proficuous

What does proficuous mean?
Proficuous means useful or profitable.
What part of speech is proficuous?
Proficuous is an adjective.

Words near proficuous in the dictionary

  1. proficient
  2. proficiently
  3. proficientness
  4. proficients
  5. profics
  6. proficuous
  7. proficuously
  8. profil perdu
  9. profilable
  10. profilaggrin
  11. profilamentous

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