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Profitable vs Estimable - What's the difference?

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Profitable is a related term of estimable.


As adjectives the difference between profitable and estimable

is that profitable is producing a profit while estimable is worthy of esteem; admirable.

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)

    estimable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of esteem; admirable.
  • * 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 22,
    • Mr. March told . . . how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.
  • (archaic) Valuable.
  • * 1596 , , The Merchant of Venice , act 1, scene 3:
    • A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
    Is not so estimable , profitable neither,
    As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.
  • Capable of being estimated.
  • * 1928 , Louis Kahlenberg and Norbert Barwasser, "On the time of Absorption and Excretion of Boric Acid in Man," Journal of Biological Chemistry , volume 79, iss. 2, page 406:
    • After this time boric acid is always present in estimable amounts.

    References

    * * * * " estimable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " estimable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) ----