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profitless

profitless adjective: not yielding profit.

Adjective

profitless (comparative more profitless, superlative most profitless)

  1. not yielding profit
    • I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
      Which falls into mine ears as profitless
      As water in a sieve...1600, Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

profitless meaning in Urdu

profitless in Urdu

عبث

Forms of profitless

comparativemore profitless
superlativemost profitless

Origin of profitless

From profit + -less.

Words formed from profitless

Questions about profitless

What does profitless mean?
Profitless means not yielding profit.
What is profitless in Urdu?
Profitless in Urdu is عبث. See Profitless meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is profitless?
Profitless is an adjective.

Words near profitless in the dictionary

  1. profiters
  2. profitest
  3. profiteth
  4. profiting
  5. profitings
  6. profitless
  7. profitlessly
  8. profitlessness
  9. profitmaking
  10. profitmonger
  11. profitmongering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: profitless (page history and authors); profitless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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