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Desirable vs Profitable - What's the difference?

desirable | profitable |

As adjectives the difference between desirable and profitable

is that desirable is wanted while profitable is producing a profit.

desirable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Suitable]], worthy to be [[desire#Verb, desired.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get

    Antonyms

    * undesirable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
    • There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
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    profitable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Producing a profit.
  • * (Aeschylus)
    • It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable . Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"

    Synonyms

    * lucrative

    Antonyms

    * unprofitable

    Derived terms

    * (l)