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unprofited

unprofited adjective: profitless.

Adjective

unprofited (comparative more unprofited, superlative most unprofited)

  1. profitless
    • Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds rather than make unprofited return.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • Ah! why , uninjured and unprofited,
      Should multitudes against their brethren rush ?1797-1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations

Forms of unprofited

comparativemore unprofited
superlativemost unprofited

Origin of unprofited

From un- + profited.

Questions about unprofited

What does unprofited mean?
Unprofited means profitless.
What part of speech is unprofited?
Unprofited is an adjective.

Words near unprofited in the dictionary

  1. unprofitable
  2. unprofitableness
  3. unprofitablenesses
  4. unprofitables
  5. unprofitably
  6. unprofited
  7. unprofiteering
  8. unprofiting
  9. unprofligate
  10. UNPROFOR
  11. unprofound

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