Profitable vs First-rate - What's the difference?
profitable | first-rate | Related terms |
Producing a profit.
* (Aeschylus)
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(military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
(by extension) Exceptionally good.
* (Matthew Arnold)
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Profitable is a related term of first-rate.
As adjectives the difference between profitable and first-rate
is that profitable is producing a profit while first-rate is (military|nautical|historical) describing a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.As a noun first-rate is
(military|nautical|historical) a ship of the line in the british navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks.profitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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
* lucrativeAntonyms
* unprofitableDerived terms
* (l)first-rate
English
(wikipedia first-rate)Noun
Adjective
- Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.