Fitful vs Profitable - What's the difference?
fitful | profitable |
As adjectives the difference between fitful and profitable is that fitful is irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits while profitable is producing a profit.
fitful English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Irregular; unsteady; characterized by fits.
- His breathing was fitful .
*1605 , Shakespeare, Macbeth ,
- [...] Duncan is in his grave;
- After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;
*1851 ,
*:The cabin lamp—taking long swings this way and that— was burning fitfully, and casting fitful shadows upon the old man’s bolted door [...]
*2012 , The Economist, The economy: Don’t say “green shoots”
*:So fitful has Britain’s economy been that any good news is understandably snatched at.
Derived terms
* fitfully
* fitfulness
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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)
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